Reversing two Trump judges, the Supreme Court restores a voting-rights victory in Louisiana.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside a decision by two Trump-appointed judges in Louisiana and restored a state election map that may allow Black voters to elect a Democrat to Congress this fall. The justices were acting on emergency appeals from civil rights lawyers as well as Louisiana's Republican leaders. Both supported the newly drawn state map with a second majority Black district.
The newly drawn 6th Congressional district stretches from Baton Rouge to Shreveport and has a Black majority. State Sen. Cleo Fields, a black Democrat who served in Congress in the mid-1990s, said he planned to run in the new district. But shortly after Gov. Landry signed the new map into law, a group of white voters filed a new suit in Monroe, Louisiana contending they were victims of racial discrimination. They won a 2-1 ruling that declared new map unconstitutional on April 30. U.S.
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