Arkansas Times: Federal lawsuit challenges state House of Representatives redistricting as racially discriminatory
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on December 29, 2021.
The case was assigned to Judge Lee Rudofsky, formerly the top lawyer on Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s staff and a diehard Republican appointee of Donald Trump. His nomination was denounced by the Alliance for Justice for a career of fighting individual rights, including voting rights when he defended the Arkansas Voter ID law against arguments that it disproportionately harmed minority voters.