Supreme Court postpones Louisiana redistricting case to next term : NPR
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On Friday, the United States Supreme Court said that it would reappear the Rediscovery Plan of the Louisiana Congress to its next mandate after this summer.
The question in question is the creation by the legislator of Louisiana of a district of the mostly black congress. A group of voters continued, arguing that the state’s legislature was unconstitutionally invoked on the race in the drawing of new district lines of the Congress.
The population of Louisiana is about a third black. But after the 2020 census, the state’s legislature attracted new congress district lines which provided for only one mainly black district in a state which has six seats in the congress. It is the same thing that Alabama did after the 2020 census, to be slapped by the Supreme Court two years ago, when a close judicial majority judged that the State had illegally diluted the black vote in violation of the law on voting rights.
Following this decision, the Legislative Assembly of Louisiana, after having lost to several courts, saw the writing on the wall and drew a new card which provided for a second mainly black district. But to redraw the district lines, the legislative assembly under republican control also sought to protect safe seats for two important GOP legislators, President Mike Johnson and the head of the majority Steve Scalise.
Enter a group of voters who identify themselves as “American non -African voters”, who opposed redistribution as a racial gerrymander.
In oral arguments earlier this year, Louisiana’s lawyer told the High Court that it was simply not the case. It was an old-fashioned political gerrymander, he said, adding: “We are talking about the orator of the room. No rational state plays with these high issues seats.”
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