泰勒·万斯/《密西西比今日报》尽管州参议员约翰尼·杜普里去年当选，代表福雷斯特县和拉马尔县的部分地区进入州议会，但他现在正试图代表该州的一个新区域。
TAYLOR VANCE/Mississippi Today Even though state Sen. Johnny DuPree was elected last year to represent portions of Forrest and Lamar counties in the Legislature, he’s now trying to represent a new area of the state.
杜普里周一宣布，他将参加11月举行的特别选举，以填补参议员胡安·巴内特留下的空缺。巴内特是来自海德堡的民主党人，已于上月辞职。
DuPree announced on Monday that he’s qualifying to run in a special election in November to fill the seat vacated by Sen. Juan Barnett, a Democrat from Heidlburg who resigned last month.
杜普里之所以要竞选一个新的参议院席位，是因为州务卿迈克尔·沃森指示地方选举官员，恢复使用州议会在2022年通过、但在2025年已被修改的立法选区划分方案。
The reason DuPree is qualifying to run for a new Senate seat is that Secretary of State Michael Watson directed local election officials to revert to legislative districts adopted by the Legislature in 2022, which had been changed in 2025.
当巴内特辞职时，州长泰特·里夫斯下令举行特别选举，依据2022年的选区界线来填补巴内特的空缺席位，该选区包含福雷斯特县、贾斯珀县和琼斯县的部分地区。
When Barnett resigned, Gov. Tate Reeves ordered a special election to fill Barnett’s vacant seat under the 2022 district lines, which contain portions of Forrest, Jasper and Jones counties.
2024年，一个由三名联邦法官组成的合议庭裁定，该州2022年选区地图的部分内容违反了联邦《投票权法》，并要求该州设立更多以黑人占多数的选区。
A federal three-judge panel ruled in 2024 that the parts of the state’s 2022 district maps violated the federal Voting Rights Act and required the state to create more majority-Black districts.
州议会于2025年再次重绘选区界线以符合规定，这在该州东北部设立了一个以黑人占多数的众议院选区，在哈蒂斯堡设立了一个以黑人占多数的参议院席位，并在德索托县设立了一个以黑人占多数的参议院席位。
The Legislature redrew the lines again in 2025 to comply, which created a majority-Black House district in northeastern Mississippi, a majority-Black Senate seat in Hattiesburg and a majority-Black Senate seat in DeSoto County.
然而，鉴于最高法院在具有里程碑意义的“路易斯安那州诉卡莱西斯案”中推翻了重划选区期间的种族歧视保护，美国最高法院推翻了该合议庭关于州立法选区的裁决，导致密西西比州立法选区的地位处于不确定状态。
But the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the three-judge panel’s decision on the state legislative districts in light of the high court’s landmark Louisiana v. Callais decision that rolled back racial discrimination protection during redistricting, leaving the status of Mississippi’s legislative districts in flux.
由于重划选区的诉讼，这将是杜普里在两年内参与的第二次特别选举。“又来了，”杜普里对《密西西比今日报》开玩笑地说道。
This will be the second special election in two years that DuPree has participated in because of redistricting lawsuits. “Here we go again,” DuPree jokingly told Mississippi Today.
全国有色人种协进会（NAACP）州分会在几个民事权利法律倡导集团的代表下，请求由三名法官组成的合议庭阻止沃森将选区恢复至2022年的地图，但美国地区法官丹尼尔·乔丹、苏尔·奥泽尔登以及美国第五巡回上诉法院法官莱斯利·索思韦克予以拒绝。
The state branch of the NAACP, represented by several civil rights legal advocacy groups, asked a three-judge panel to prevent Watson from reverting the districts to the 2022 maps, but U.S. District Judges Daniel Jordan and Sul Ozerden and U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Leslie Southwick declined.
既然联邦法院已经为沃森在没有立法机关采取行动的情况下单方面更改立法选区扫清了障碍，目前尚不清楚这对于可能召开的、旨在再次重新划分立法选区的特别立法会议意味着什么。
Now that the federal courts have cleared the way for Watson to unilaterally change legislative districts without action from the Legislature, it’s unclear what this means for a potential special legislative session to, again, redraw legislative districts.
州长泰特·里夫斯曾表示，他很可能会在今年秋天召集议员召开特别会议，在年底前重新划分国会、立法机构和州最高法院选区，民主党人对此坚决反对。
Gov. Tate Reeves has said he will likely call lawmakers into a special session this fall to redraw congressional, legislative and state Supreme Court districts before the end of the year, something Democrats have strongly opposed.
杜普里的困境引发了一系列问题，例如哪些议员可以参与潜在的特别会议，以及2025年在新地图下当选的议员去代表2022年划定的旧选区是否合法。
DuPree’s predicament raises a range of questions about which lawmakers can participate in a potential special session and if it’s legal for legislators elected in 2025 under new maps to represent older districts drawn in 2022.
“这对那些将投票选出接替巴内特参议员的人民来说是不公平的，”杜普里说。“这对福雷斯特县的人民是不公平的。这一切没有什么是公平的。”本文最初由《密西西比今日报》发表，并通过与美联社的合作进行分发。
“This is not fair to the people who are going to vote to replace Sen. Barnett,” DuPree said. “It’s not fair to the people of Forrest County. Nothing about this is fair.”This story was originally published by Mississippi Today and distributed through a partnership with The Associated Press.