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The U.S. Supreme Courtroom quickly halted a decrease court docket's order to create a second majority Black congressional District in Louisiana.
The excessive court docket's order was launched Tuesday together with the dissents of the three liberal justices. It follows a decrease court docket discovering that the newly drawn map of Louisiana's voting districts for the six U.S. Home of Representatives seats would seemingly violate the Voting rights Act by diluting Black voters.
The justices have stopped drawing a brand new district for the following time period of a associated redistricting case involving Alabama's new congressional map. In October, the court docket heard oral arguments within the Alabama case. It issued the same order in February for that state's map and has now agreed to listen to the Louisiana redistricting case.
Like Alabama, Louisiana's Supreme Courtroom has ordered a delay in midterm elections. It's because maps discovered by decrease courts are prone to hurt the facility of Black voters can be used.
In Louisiana, the map for this yr's Home races has white voters making up the bulk in 5 out of six districts, as accredited by the state's Republican-controlled legislature.
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