A federal judge's plan to hold hearings next week to draw up congressional boundary lines that would give Louisiana a second majority-Black district has been blocked by an appeals court
FILE - A man walks in front of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Jan. 7, 2015. A federal judge's plan to hold hearings the first week of October 2023 to draw up congressional boundary lines that would give Louisiana a second majority-Black district has been blocked by an appeals court.
Dick had issued an injunction last year blocking a map that had been drawn up by the Legislature, saying it violated the Voting Rights Act. But the map was used in the 2022s after the Supreme Court put the Louisiana case on hold, pending the outcome of the Alabama case. Louisiana has six U.S. House districts. Five are currently represented by white Republicans and one by a Black Democrat.
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