Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Fayette County Board of Commissioners

ORDER

TIMOTHY C. BATTEN, SR., District Judge.

Judicial redistricting is not ideal. So where legislative action can remedy an unconstitutional or unlawful election plan, redistricting should be left to elected officials. Perry v. Perez, — U.S.-, 132 S.Ct. 934, 941, 181 L.Ed.2d 900 (2012). Yet this rule is not without exception, such as when the timing of an upcoming election makes legislative action impractical. Wise v. Lipscomb, 437 U.S. 535, 540, 98 S.Ct. 2493, 57 L.Ed.2d 411 (1978) (plurality opinion). That is the case here. Under a recently enacted Georgia law, qualification for the 2014…