Louisiana Legislature OKs new Supreme Court map with second Black-majority district

KLFY— SB255 passed with 85 yeas and nine nays on Thursday, April 24. The bill says that the state should split into seven Supreme Court districts. Each district should have one justice elected from it.

KLFY—Gov. Jeff Landry signs new Supreme Court map with second Black-majority district bill into law. SB255 passed with a vote of 85-9 out of the house on Wednesday, April 24. The bill splits the state into seven Supreme Court districts, each with one justice to be elected.

NBC News—Court blocks Louisiana's congressional map with a second majority-Black district. A federal court on Tuesday blocked Louisiana from using a congressional map signed into law this year that had been redrawn to include a second majority-Black district. In a 2-1 vote, the three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Monroe, Louisiana, found that Senate Bill 8, which provided for the redistricting of congressional districts in the state, violated a clause in the 14th Amendment that ensures equal protection under the Constitution. The case is likely to end up before the Supreme...

Democracy Now!—Federal Court Rejects Louisiana Voting Map That Created New Majority-Black District. Two Trump-appointed federal judges rejected a new Louisiana congressional map which created a second majority-Black district. The map was drawn up after another federal judge ruled a previous voting map, which had just one Black-majority district, violated the Voting Rights Act. Roughly one-third of Louisiana’s population is Black. It remains unclear which map Louisiana will be using in November as the case is expected to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.