Morning Digest: Discriminatory GOP map gets replaced, but case is still a time bomb

_{The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.}

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● ND Redistricting: A federal judge has once again imposed a new electoral map after Republicans refused to do so themselves in the face of a court order, but obstinacy has gotten the GOP nowhere.

North Dakota's new legislative map will undo a key part of a previous Republican gerrymander that had split a pair of Native American reservations between two districts, a move that had violated the Voting Rights Act by preventing Native voters from electing their preferred candidates. But Republicans have appealed, and they're advancing a very dangerous argument that could bring an end to all litigation under the VRA.

Read Stephen Wolf's new post to learn more about what this case means for a community that has long faced discrimination in North Dakota—and what the GOP's ticking time bomb could do to voting nationwide.