The justices ordered Louisiana Republicans to redraw the state's congressional map to include a second minority district.
a win after it ordered the state Legislature's Republican majority to redraw a congressional map to include a second Black-majority district.
On Monday, the Court dismissed a GOP-led appeal from the state to push through with a new congressional map that civil rights groups argued would weaken the voting rights of Louisiana's Black residents. The plaintiffs argued that Black residents in the state would be able to elect their candidate of choice in only one of six congressional districts, despite accounting for a third of the state's population.
Instead of hearing the case themselves, justices lifted the hold from a lower court order and paved the way for a second minority district to be drawn into the map. There were no noted dissents from individual justices. Monday's announcement comes just weeks after the Supreme Court issued a ruling about an Alabama congressional map. The justices ordered the state to redraw the map to allow for another Black-majority district in the state, where Black residents account for 27 percent of the population.
Residents watch the election results at Vaughan's Lounge in New Orleans on Election Day in 2020. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Louisiana Legislature's Republican majority to redraw a congressional map to include a second Black-majority district.The decision comes as the American public awaits Supreme Court rulings in a series of major cases during this term. Among those is a decision in another redistricting case that involves a congressional map drawn in North Carolina.
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