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The Louisiana Legislature's redrawn congressional map giving the state a second mostly Black congressional district is being challenged in a new federal lawsuit. The map was passed by the Republican-dominated
The challenge filed Wednesday and assigned to a Lafayette judge says the map, which Republicans agreed to after a 2022 lawsuit filed in Baton Rouge, is the result of “textbook racial gerrymandering.”
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The Louisiana Legislature's redrawn congressional map giving the state a second mostly Black district is being challenged by 12 self-described “non-African American” voters in a new lawsuit. The challenge filed Wednesday and assigned to a judge in Lafayette says the map, which Republican lawmakers agreed to as a result of a 2022 federal lawsuit filed in Baton Rouge, is the result of “textbook racial gerrymandering.” At least one person, state Sen. Cleo Fields, a Black Democrat from Baton Rouge, has already said he will be a candidate in the new district.
The Louisiana Legislature's redrawn congressional map giving the state a second mostly Black congressional district is being challenged in a new federal lawsuit