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The US Supreme Court said on Friday that it would convert Louisiana’s Congress’s Relating Plan into its next term after this summer.
On this issue, a black-dominated Congress district of Louisiana Legislature is the construction of the district. A group of “non-African American” voters filed a lawsuit, claiming that there was an illegal racial Germander in the district.
Opponents of redistribution had argued that the State Legislature had unconstitutionally trusted the race to attract the new Congress district lines.
The population of Louisiana is about one third of black. But after the 2020 census, the State Legislature attracted the new Congress district lines, provided for only one majority-black district in a state with six Congress seats. This is the same thing as Alabama slapped by the Supreme Court only two years ago when a narrow court majority ruled that the state had diluted the black vote in violation of the illegal voting rights Act.
In view of that decision, the Louisiana Legislature, after losing several courts before several courts, saw the handwriting on the wall and attracted a new map that was provided for a second majority-black district. But in re-starting district lines, the Republican-controlled Legislature also demanded two important GOP MPs, speaker Mike Johnson and safe seats for Steve Skillis.
Enter a group of voters as a group of voters identified as “non-African-American voters”, who objected to the redistribution of racial germander.
Earlier this year, in oral arguments, Louisiana’s lawyer told the High Court that the bus was not the case. It was an old-fashioned political Germander, said, “We are talking about the speaker of the House. There is no rational state gambling with those high-dot seats.”