The Georgia legislature moved closer to passing new congressional maps on Tuesday after the proposed plan, which would keep the partisan split intact, passed in the state Senate.

Lawmakers in both chambers also passed new maps for the state legislature, sending them to Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) for final approval. The redrawn maps for the state's congressional delegation, state House districts, and state Senate districts are set to be used for the 2024 election after a court ordered new maps by ruling the current maps violate the Voting Rights Act.

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The congressional map plan backed by Republicans would see nine Republican and five Democratic seats, but it would redraw the 6th and 7th Congressional Districts in the process. The proposal passed in the state Senate by a 32-22 vote and will be debated in the state House. The GOP controls both chambers of the state legislature.

The new maps for the state House and Senate would minimize losses for the GOP while creating new black-majority districts. The state Senate maps maintain a 33-22 advantage of GOP seats, while the state House maps would only see one or two GOP losses from its current 102-78 majority.

Democrats have opposed the new maps, arguing they create black-majority districts at the expense of other minority opportunity districts, something they claim would violate the court order. Republicans have dismissed the arguments as being more about partisan concerns rather than following the Voting Rights Act.

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"All of the arguments against this are partisan arguments, people who are angry because they want to change the partisan balance to increase the number of Democratic representatives in Congress for the state of Georgia," Republican state Sen. Bill Cowsert said, according to the Associated Press.

District Judge Steve Jones had set a Dec. 8 deadline to get new maps passed into law to comply with his order.