Mississippi lawmakers violated the Voting Rights Act by discriminating against Black voters in their legislative redistricting plan, a federal district court ruled Tuesday. In an opinion released by the Northern Division of the Southern District of Mississippi and highlighted by The Redistricting Network, a three-judge panel found that legislators improperly diluted Black voting power in the state House and Senate by racially gerrymandering districts. The new maps contain the same number of Black-majority districts as the maps in prior elections — but, the court found, they still improperly so…