Washington —The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will allow Louisiana to use for the 2024 elections a congressional map that includes a second district where the majority of voters are Black, giving them the opportunity to elect their favored candidate. The justices granted two separate requests...
Reports that the decision by a federal panel which resulted in the rejection of the Louisiana congressional district map will be appealed in the United States Supreme Court. Comments from Brenda Wright, director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.Gruenwald...
Washington —The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a long-running redistricting dispute in Louisiana that could determine whether the state maintains a congressional map that includes two majority-Black districts after the 2024 election. The court's decision to hear the appeal fr...
Louisiana’s congressional map is so back On Wednesday, the Supreme Courtreinstated a versionof Louisiana’s congressional map that contains two Black-majority, Democratic-leaning districts — at least for the 2024 election. Last month, a lower court had struck down that map for relying too ...
louisiana's republican-controlled legislature overrode democratic governor john bel edwards' veto of a new congressional map, ensuring the state will maintain only a single majority-black district among its six seats. edwards rejected the map earlier this month, saying lawmakers should...
As a result, Louisiana's six-member U.S. House delegation will likely go from 5-1 Republican to 4-2 Republican after the 2024 election. Louisiana’s new map will likely elect a second Democrat The 2020 presidential margin and white and Black voting-age ...
In Alabama, GOP lawmakers packed most Black voters into only one of seven congressional districts, even though Blacks make up 27% of the state’s population. In Louisiana, where nearly one-third of the state’s population is Black, GOP lawmakers approved a map containing five majority-white ...
The Supreme Court is taking up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana’s congressional map with two mostly Black districts.
State House, Senate district maps to become law without governor's signature boundaries of Louisiana’s congressional districts,to, citing the failure to add a second majority black district. “I have vetoed the proposed congressional map drawn by Louisiana’s Legislature because it does not include...
South Carolina and Louisiana, among other states, each district counts more than ever. Republicans see a threat to their majority if districts are redrawn that eliminate GOP strongholds. In North Carolina, Republicans recently passed a new congressional map that cou...