Louisiana Must Add 2nd Black Majority District, Court Rules (2)

Louisiana’s Republican-led Legislature must redraw its new congressional redistricting plan to include an additional majority-Black district in time for the 2022 midterm elections, a federal court ruled Monday.

Lawmakers narrowly voted in March to override Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto and keep a congressional map with a single majority-Black seat in a state where roughly a third of the residents are Black.

“The Court finds that Black representation under the enacted plan is not proportional to the Black share of population in Louisiana,” according to the order from the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana.

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