Supreme Court upholds Louisiana redistricting plan
A federal district court ruled that the new map drawn by the state legislature violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the Black vote. A group of conservatives challenged the legislature's map.
The U.S. Supreme Court has for all practical purposes upheld a new congressional redistricting plan in Louisiana that provides for a second majority Black district. But the court's decision appears to be limited to the current 2024 election cycle.
At the same time that the court upheld the creation of a second majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana, the justices said that a new challenge to the second district could be filed, a challenge that the court would hear next term, too
