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 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...
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Supreme Court clears way for Louisiana congressional map with 2 Black districts Elections Court tosses map that created second Black House district in Louisiana Legal Harry Connick Sr., lightning-rod longtime New Orleans DA, dies at 97 Congress ...
BATON ROUGE, LA. (AP) — A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a judge’s order that juvenile detainees must be removed by Friday from a former death row building at a Louisiana prison for adults.
The most recent congressional map, enacted in January after federal courts rejected earlier voting bounds, remains in place for the upcoming election, as the Supreme Court in Maygave the green lightfor it to be used this cycle. A three-judge district court panel had blocked the state from usi...
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In both states, Black voters are a majority in just one congressional district. Lower courts had ruled that the maps raised concerns that Black voting power had been diluted, in violation of the landmark federal Voting Rights Act. The justices had allowed the state’s challe...
Louisiana presented at the conference a map showing the Louisiana contention as to the boundary, which is the map attached to the bill, and marked Exhibit E. The Mississippi commission reported that it was impossible to effect an amicable extrajudicial settlement of the dispute, and that the ...
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, Re...