Supreme Court allows Louisiana to use congressional map with second majority-Black district

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Louisiana’s map has been the subject of intense litigation, with the state’s original effort ruled to be a racial gerrymander

The court granted emergency requests filed by an unlikely alliance of Republican state officials and civil rights groups, who were united in asking the high court to block a that invalidated the most recently drawn map.

That map was subsequently redrawn after the Supreme Court last summer unexpectedly buttressed the federal Voting Rights Act by ruling that But after the new map was drawn, a new group of plaintiffs who are each described in court papers as “non-African American” brought a legal challenge saying it violated the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which ensures the law applies equally for everyone.

The plaintiffs in the new case said the state’s deadlines were “hopelessly arbitrary,” in part because there is no spring primary election.

 

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