Federal Panel Throws Out Louisiana’s Redrawn Map With Majority-Black Districts
The judges said that race had played a ‘predominate role’ and that a new congressional district constituted an ‘impermissible racial gerrymander.’ A panel of federal judges has thrown out Louisiana’s recently-drawn congressional map that had created a second majority-black district in the state, likely sending the case to the Supreme Court. In a 2-1 vote