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.
to cancel a lower court's hearing for selecting a new redistricting plan that U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick had scheduled to start on Oct. 3.
The ruling issued Thursday, which could be reviewed by the full 5th Circuit court or the U.S. Supreme Court, delays the process for creating a new congressional map to replace one that Dick found likely violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting power of Black Louisianans. The panel's ruling is the latest twist in a redistricting lawsuit that may end up before the Supreme Court again. GOP state officials appealed the case to the country's highest court last year with a request that, among other legal questions, asked the court to weigh in onin last year's midterm elections while the justices reviewed both the Louisiana case and a similar congressional redistricting case out of Alabama.
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