Supreme Court orders Louisiana to use congressional map with additional Black district in 2024 vote
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The Supreme Court has ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander.
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Louisiana voters ask Supreme Court to change congressional map
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Supreme Court orders Louisiana to use congressional map with additional Black district in 2024 vote
A divided three-judge panel ruled last month a recently adopted congressional map that includes two majority-Black districts is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
By John Fritze and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court paused a chaotic legal fight over Louisiana’s congressional districts in a brief order Wednesday that will likely allow the state to use a map in this year’s election that creates a second majority-Black district and benefits Democr…
WASHINGTON >> 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 today with potential implications for which party will control the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Supreme Court has ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander.
Louisiana had asked the justices to weigh in on a dispute over its new congressional map, with a second majority-Black district, in time for the election.
The state of Louisiana and a group of Black voters and civil rights groups asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a long-running dispute over the state's congressional map.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander.
The Supreme Court’s order does not deal with a lower-court ruling that found the map relied too heavily on race. Instead, it only prevents yet another new map from being drawn for this year’s elections.
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander.
The Supreme Court has ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for Louisiana to use a new congressional map, containing two majority-Black districts, in the 2024 elections. In a brief unsigned order the justices blocked a ruling by a federal court that had barred the state from using the new map on the ground that
