The decision fuels new uncertainty about district boundaries as the state prepares for fall congressional elections.
A new congressional district map giving Louisiana a second majority-Black House district was rejected Tuesday by a panel of three federal judges, fueling new uncertainty about district boundaries as the state prepares for fall congressional elections.
Supporters of the new map said political considerations, not race, played a major role in the development of the new map, which slashes diagonally across the state, linking Black populations in the northwest, central and southeast regions. And they said it ensures the state's compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act.
Graves supported a rival of Republican Gov. Jeff Landry in last year's governor's race. Supporters of the new plan say that bolsters the argument that the new map was drawn with politics, rather than race, as a driving factor. In June 2022, Baton Rouge-based U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick issued an injunction against the map, saying challengers would likely win their claim that it violated the Voting Rights Act. As the case was appealed, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an unexpected ruling that favored Black voters in a congressional redistricting case in Alabama.
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