South Dakota lawmakers have a duty to redraw district boundaries ruled illegal in a federal voting-rights case, the state Supreme Court said Thursday in a decision that probably means a special legislative session.
The state court said the legislative duty in redistricting continues until the job is done legally. A plan ruled invalid by a court, as the South Dakota Legislature's 2001 redistricting was in U.S. District Court last fall, isn't a finished product, the opinion said.
That ruling, sought in a federal case involving Lakota voters in legislative districts that encompass the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations, almost surely means a special session, Attorney General Larry Long said.
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