CNN —The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Louisiana congressional map to be redrawn to add another majority-Black district.
The appeals court expedited a fuller review of the case, but those proceedings were frozen last summer once the Louisiana officials successfully sought intervention from the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court in late June of last year, took up the case but put it on pause while it decided the challenge to the Alabama map.
The state’s opponents countered that the district court in the Louisiana case had decided that the 5-1 map likely violated the Voting Rights Act under the same exact legal test the Supreme Court sanctioned in its Alabama ruling.
“Black voters in Louisiana have suffered one election under a congressional map that unlawfully dilutes their political influence.
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“, ”, Steve Vladeck, Vladeck, Shelly Dick, John Bel Edwards, Dick, Robinson, –, Milligan, Abha Khanna, ” Khanna, ” Angelique Freel
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CNN, Alabama, CNN Supreme, University of Texas School of Law, Appeals, Fifth Circuit, Republican, Democratic Gov, Louisiana State, NAACP, Louisiana Republican, Elias Group
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Louisiana, Black, Alabama, ” Louisiana