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A redistricting battle over Louisiana's congressional map has spanned years and been before the Supreme Court twice already.
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Supreme Court weighs whether to keep Louisiana congressional mapThe justices have in recent years weakened the Voting Rights Act ... who challenged the new congressional map did not have the legal right to sue, a concept known as standing, because they ...
It still feels a little paranoid to say it out loud: that the United States might be drifting toward something that looks a ...
A Louisiana redistricting case signals that further attacks on the Voting Rights Act may be coming, putting fair ...
Voting rights groups in Ohio may soon be fighting a two-front war on voter suppression in Congress and in the Statehouse.
And, even more troublingly, the conservative supermajority’s questions made clear that Louisiana’s remedial map may not be the only thing in danger: The Voting Rights Act itself may also be on ...
Two months before a scheduled trial, a coalition of voting rights groups is withdrawing from a long-running challenge to the political maps Texas drew after the 2020 U.S. census, which the groups ...
In Allen v. Milligan (2023), the Court ruled that Alabama’s congressional maps violated the Voting Rights Act’s protections against racial gerrymandering, and that the state must draw an ...
A majority of the court appeared skeptical of a challenge to Louisiana’s voting map. The challengers had ... as they try to comply with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The law remains a central ...
Noting that nearly a third of Louisiana’s voters are black, the court ruled that the first map violated section two of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by diluting black voters’ power.
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