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Two Donald Trump-appointed federal judges handed down a ruling Tuesday that would block Louisiana from using a newly authorized voter map that established an additional majority-Black district. The judges’ decision forbids Louisiana from using the map in this fall’s elections — a potential boon for Republicans, who hold a slim majority in the House of Representatives. Black Louisianans and a number of civil rights organizations have already filed an appeal to the Supreme Court.
It's worth noting that the 14th Amendment was used to give voting rights to formerly enslaved Black folks and others who’d been deliberately disenfranchised. The conservative justices’ argument is a tired rehash of right-wing arguments against affirmative action: that things done to remedy racist harms are inherently racist because they take race into consideration.
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