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A federal court agreed to hear arguments later this month over whether Louisiana’s newly enacted congressional map complies with the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial ruling in Louisiana v. Callais — a proceeding that could put the state’s last remaining majority-Black congressional district in jeopardy.
The Louisiana Senate voted 28-10 to eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black congressional seats Friday, sending the remapping bill to Gov. Jeff Landry (R) for signing.
The Louisiana House voted 66-35 to eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black congressional seats.
Louisiana suspended an ongoing congressional election to draft and enact a new electoral map eliminating one of the state’s two majority-Black districts barely a month after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out its old one in Callais v. Louisiana. But that’s neither fast enough or far enough for the “non-African American” plaintiffs in Callais.
The CBC’s Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Ala.) has pulled support of the SCORE Act, which he helped draft, due to the GOP’s redistricting war impacts on his state.
If you thought President Donald Trump’s deep unpopularity might be moving GOP voters away from election denialism, this week suggested you should think again.
Louisiana’s House and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a new congressional map eliminating one of Louisiana’s two majority-Black districts.
Senate Republicans celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent kneecapping of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by plotting paths forward for right-wing lawyers and elected officials to further erode minority electoral power at a hearing Tuesday.
In a development signaling Trump’s expansive control over the GOP, a candidate he backed has unseated U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy in Louisiana’s primary.
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