Judge blocks Louisiana Congress map with one Black district
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Louisiana's Democratic governor says he'll call the state's Republican-dominated Legislature into special session to draw up new congressional districts. Gov. John Bel Edwards made the announcement Monday evening after a federal judge in Louisiana blocked the use of a newly drawn map that includes o…
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A federal court in Louisiana on Monday blocked the state's congressional map and ordered the state legislature to draw a new map by June 20. It ruled that the state should have an additional majority-Black congressional district.
Louisiana's Democratic governor says he'll call the state's Republican-dominated Legislature into special session to draw up new congressional districts. Gov. John Bel Edwards made the announcement Monday evening after a federal judge in Louisiana blocked the use of a newly drawn map that includes o…
Just when the decennial line-drawing process appeared to be over following New Hampshire's new map last week, a federal judge upended Louisiana's congressional map and ordered the state back to the drawing board.
A federal judge in Louisiana has blocked the use of newly drawn congressional maps that include only one mostly Black district. U.S. District Judge Shelley Dick in Baton Rouge on
The judge ordered the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature to redraw the map to include a second district that gives Black voters the chance to elect a candidate of their choice.
NEW ORLEANS -- Louisiana's Democratic governor said Monday that he will call the Republican-dominated Legislature into special session soon to draw up new congressional district boundaries, now that a federal judge has blocked use of maps that have only one majority-Black district.
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