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...
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The map, which was used in Louisiana’s November congressional election, has white majorities in five of six districts, all currently held by Republicans. This is despite Black people accounting for one-third of the state’s population. Another mostly Black district could ...
Supreme Court clears way for Louisiana congressional map with 2 Black districts By MADISON FERNANDEZ 05/15/2024 06:26 PM EDT Elections Court tosses map that created second Black House district in Louisiana By ZACH MONTELLARO 04/30/2024 08:22 PM EDT Legal Harry Connick Sr., lightning-rod...
Republicans have stood by their statements that the map is fair, and argue that trying to include the state’s widely dispersed Black population in two separate congressional districts would result in two districts with very narrow Black majorities that could actually diminish Bla...
Yesterday, under threat of federal court intervention,the GOP-controlled Louisiana state legislature approved a new congressional map drawing two Black-majority districts — and effectively squeezing Graves out of his seat after five terms while leaving the district of a more junior colleague, ...
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