Interesting---looks like a win for the Blue team. Louisiana is, in my experience, hands-down the most racist state in the country.
This is Reconstruction sort of stuff, that should have been settled over a hundred years ago.
Add to the mix the mandatory corruption of ALL parties--nothing is ever certain--all is for sale.
The U.S. Supreme Court restored a Louisiana electoral map that has two of the state's six congressional districts with Black-majority populations for use in the Nov. 5 election - a ruling on Wednesday with potential implications for which party will control the U.S. House of Representatives.
The justices granted a request by state officials and a group of Black voters to temporarily halt a federal three-judge panel's decision throwing out Louisiana's newly redrawn map that includes two Black-majority U.S. House districts, rather than the one present in a previous version. Black voters tend to support Democratic candidates.
The judicial panel on April 30 had ruled 2-1 that the map was chiefly influenced by race in violation of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection, and ordered that a new map be drawn.
The panel's decision was the latest development in a long-running legal fight over the boundaries of Louisiana's U.S. House districts. Republicans hold a 217-213 margin in the House. Ongoing legal battles over redistricting in several states could be enough to determine whether Republicans retain control or Democrats regain a majority.
The Republican-controlled Louisiana legislature approved the new map in January adding a second Black-majority district after U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick in 2022 found that the previous Republican-drawn map illegally harmed Black voters. Dick concluded that the previous map devised by the state legislature likely violated the Voting Rights Act, a landmark 1965 U.S. law that bars racial discrimination in voting.
The Supreme Court in 2023 left Dick's ruling in place.
Under the map rejected by Dick, Black voters had constituted a majority in only one of the state's six districts, despite comprising nearly a third of Louisiana's population.
This is Reconstruction sort of stuff, that should have been settled over a hundred years ago.
Add to the mix the mandatory corruption of ALL parties--nothing is ever certain--all is for sale.
The U.S. Supreme Court restored a Louisiana electoral map that has two of the state's six congressional districts with Black-majority populations for use in the Nov. 5 election - a ruling on Wednesday with potential implications for which party will control the U.S. House of Representatives.
The justices granted a request by state officials and a group of Black voters to temporarily halt a federal three-judge panel's decision throwing out Louisiana's newly redrawn map that includes two Black-majority U.S. House districts, rather than the one present in a previous version. Black voters tend to support Democratic candidates.
The judicial panel on April 30 had ruled 2-1 that the map was chiefly influenced by race in violation of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection, and ordered that a new map be drawn.
The panel's decision was the latest development in a long-running legal fight over the boundaries of Louisiana's U.S. House districts. Republicans hold a 217-213 margin in the House. Ongoing legal battles over redistricting in several states could be enough to determine whether Republicans retain control or Democrats regain a majority.
The Republican-controlled Louisiana legislature approved the new map in January adding a second Black-majority district after U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick in 2022 found that the previous Republican-drawn map illegally harmed Black voters. Dick concluded that the previous map devised by the state legislature likely violated the Voting Rights Act, a landmark 1965 U.S. law that bars racial discrimination in voting.
The Supreme Court in 2023 left Dick's ruling in place.
Under the map rejected by Dick, Black voters had constituted a majority in only one of the state's six districts, despite comprising nearly a third of Louisiana's population.
