Court tosses map that created second Black House district in Louisiana

Rep. Garret Graves saw his congressional seat carved up earlier this year to create a second majority-Black district in Louisiana. A divided panel of federal judges threw out that new district on Tuesday. | Francis Chung/POLITICOA panel of federal judges has tossed out Louisiana’s new congressional map, striking the state’s second majority-Black district just months after it was signed into law.

an efficient Republican partisan gerrymander in North Carolina, where the GOP basically automatically netted three seats for 2024 in mid-decade redistricting. “The State first made the decision to create a majority-Black district and, only then, did political considerations factor into the State’s creation of District 6,” the majority opinion read.

The next steps for Louisiana are not immediately clear. The court will hold a hearing on Monday to discuss possible remedies to the violation — although an emergency appeal of the decision up to the Supreme Court is likely.

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