A federal appeals court blocked the redrawing of Louisiana's congressional map after a lower court found the redistricting plan likely violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voters' power.
People line up to vote at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter Elementary School in New Orleans in 2020.People line up to vote at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter Elementary School in New Orleans in 2020.A federal appeals court has stopped the redrawing of Louisiana's map of congressional voting districts, further complicating a long-running legal fight over the voting strength of the state's Black voters.
"The district court did not follow the law of the Supreme Court or this court. Its action in rushing redistricting via a court-ordered map is a clear abuse of discretion for which there is no alternative means of appeal," U.S. Circuit Judge Edith Jones, a Reagan appointee, wrote inCircuit Judge Stephen Higginson, an Obama appointee, dissented.
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