{"id":22666,"date":"2026-05-14T02:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kemp-calls-for-redistricting-special-session-to-redraw-2028-maps-in-georgia\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:20:17","slug":"kemp-calls-for-redistricting-special-session-to-redraw-2028-maps-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kemp-calls-for-redistricting-special-session-to-redraw-2028-maps-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemp calls for redistricting special session to redraw 2028 maps in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Wednesday called for a special legislative session for lawmakers to redraw the state&#8217;s maps ahead of the 2028 elections. Kemp&#8217;s proclamation called on lawmakers to reconvene on June 17 to &#8220;consider enacting, revising, repealing, or amending general law for the division of the State into appropriate districts&#8221; following the&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5877031-georgia-redistricting-maps-2028\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Wednesday called for a special legislative session for lawmakers to redraw the state&#8217;s maps ahead of the 2028 elections. Kemp&#8217;s proclamation called on lawmakers to reconvene on June 17 to &#8220;consider enacting, revising, repealing, or amending general law for the division of the State into appropriate districts&#8221; following the&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}