The panel ruled Tuesday that a newly redrawn congressional map violated the Equal Protection Clause.
A federal three-judge panel on Tuesday threw out Louisiana’s recently redrawn congressional map that included an additional majority-Black district, leaving the state without a settled congressional map some six months before the November elections.
Two Donald Trump-appointed judges, David Joseph and Robert Summerhays - district judges for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana - represented the court’s majority opinion. Bill Clinton-appointed Judge Carl Stewart, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, dissented in the case.
The map that was struck down had been approved by the state legislature in January, after a federal court found that the existing map likely illegally diminished Black voting power.Before the most recent map had been established, Black voters in Louisiana had a majority in just one of the state’s six congressional districts,
“This, to me, is what happens when you allow gamesmanship to drive results,” Levitt said. “And once again, the voters of Louisiana are suffering.”
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