Court weighs Louisiana redistricting with
second majority-Black district
Posted By: sunset, 3/24/2025 10:16:20 PM
It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisiana’s latest redistricting plan. The state and a group of Black voters ask the justices to reinstate a congressional map, enacted by the Louisiana legislature last year, that created a second majority-Black district. A federal court threw the map out, agreeing with a group of voters who describe themselves as “non-African American” that the new map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander — that is, it sorted voters primarily based on race. Several of the court’s conservative justices expressed skepticism about the map and the 2022 ruling on which Louisiana relied
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Low character individuals do not need to be consolidated into voting districts. By the same token, race focused individuals do not need to be consolidated into voting districts.