US EditionAppeals Panel Declines Louisiana’s Invitation to Gut Voting Rights Act
The court invalidated Louisiana’s 2022 maps for diluting Black voters’ power through 'packing,' reaffirming protections under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Fifth Circuit ruled.
- In a decision this week, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court ruling and rejected Louisiana's challenge to its voting maps.
- During the court proceedings, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick described 'packing' Black voters into few districts, with the potential for six more majority-Black house districts and three more senate districts.
- Data shows violations in 18 house districts and seven senate districts in major cities like New Orleans and Baton Rouge, according to U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick.
- The court has blocked all elections under the invalidated maps and ordered the Louisiana Legislature to redraw them or face court-drawn districts.
- The ruling arrives as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide another Louisiana redistricting challenge, with changes potentially creating six more majority-Black house districts and three more Senate districts.
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Appeals court affirms decision to redraw Louisiana's state House and Senate voting districts
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a Louisiana judge's decision to invalidate the state's legislative district maps for House and Senate races, saying they violated section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
Louisiana’s legislative maps violate Voting Rights Act, 5th Circuit rules
(Photo credit: Wesley Muller/Louisiana Illuminator)District maps for seats in the Louisiana Legislature violate the federal Voting Rights Act, a panel of judges on the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Their decision upholds a lower court ruling that found the boundaries discriminated against Black voters. The panel’s ruling was issued Thursday in the case Nairne v. Landry, in which Black voters sued the state over redistricting plan…
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Appeals panel declines Louisiana’s invitation to gut Voting Rights Act
A federal appeals court panel declined Louisiana’s invitation to gut a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) that has required the state to draw additional majority-minority districts, ruling Thursday that the argument is foreclosed by binding precedent. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision upholds a judge’s ruling that blocked Louisiana’s state legislative maps by finding they “packed” and “cracked” Black communities in violat…
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