“Louisiana will have 2 Black majority districts for fall elections, US Supreme Court decides”: Mark Ballard of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.
Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times reports that “Supreme Court, for Now, Allows Louisiana Voting Map to Move Forward; Louisiana had asked the justices to weigh in on a dispute over a new congressional map with a second majority-Black district in time for the election.”
Patrick Marley, Justin Jouvenal, and Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post report that “Supreme Court restores Louisiana voting map with majority-Black district; The court had been asked to resolve uncertainty over which map Louisiana will use, with just months to go before the 2024 election.”
David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court upholds new Black-majority district in Louisiana that may elect Democrat to Congress.”
Maureen Groppe and Greg Hilburn of USA Today report that “Supreme Court allows Louisiana’s congressional map with new, mostly Black district; One lawyer who has argued the issue of voting rights before the Supreme Court called the case the biggest ‘train wreck’ in recent memory; ‘This madness must end,’ Louisiana’s attorney general said.”
You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the dissent therefrom, at this link.
Posted at 8:14 PM by Howard Bashman