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BATON ROUGE - Lawmakers have very little to show for the special session to re-draw Louisiana's Congressional districts as two plans to satisfy a federal judge's order to create a second majority-minority district were rejected today.
The Louisiana Legislature has adjourned without approving new congressional map that a federal judge ordered them to submit by Monday.
The Louisiana Secretary of State and Attorney General asked the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to intervene in the state’s ongoing redistricting debate and block a lower court ruling that requires the state to draw a new congressional map with two majority-Black districts by Monday.
BATON ROUGE, La. - A longshot push to add a second majority-Black district to Louisiana's congressional map failed in Senate and House committees Friday, another sign of the problems the
Louisiana lawmakers have so far filed seven maps to consider in a special session brought about after a federal court rejected a congressional redistricting proposal they approved earlier this year. The judge in the case has given legislators until Monday to submit a map with two majority-Black districts in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act.