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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Earlier this year, the Louisiana legislatureredrew the state's congressional mapto add a second Black-majority district after a courtruled that the old map violated the Voting Rights Actby not giving Black voters enough representation. This turned a solid-red seat, the 6th District, into a...
What judges objected to; New map signed into law in April 1994; Plaintiffs in the case ('Hays v. Louisiana') that resulted in the first map's disqualification who are still considering a challenge to the new map.EBSCO_AspCongressional Quarterly Weekly Report...
The Supreme Court is taking up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana’s congressional map with two mostly Black districts.
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...
In Louisiana, where nearly one-third of the state’s population is Black, GOP lawmakers approved a map containing five majority-white districts, all of which favor Republican incumbents. The 2nd Congressional District, held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Troy Carter, is the sole Black-majority distric...
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...
The Congressional District for ZIP code 70150 is Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, the Congressional Land Area is 1268.48 square mile. Congressional District: 2nd Congressional Land Area: 1268.48 Delivery In the ZIP code 70150, there are 0 residential delivery mailboxes and centralized units,...
While considering the Alabama case, the Supreme Court had put a hold on a similar lower court ruling that Louisiana’s districts must be redrawn to create a second majority-Black district. That’s likely to be lifted. A federal judge in Georgia last year also said some of its congres...