The Louisiana Senate Governmental Affairs Committee voted Friday against two proposed maps that would create two majority black districts in the state instead of one. The session will proceed until Monday; however, creating a new congressional map is now in limbo due to the decision made Friday by lawmakers. An outcome of a map being approved is unlikely as some GOP members hope for the clock to run out before a map can be approved, leaving it in the hands of an appeals court or the United States Supreme Court. This comes after a request from Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin and Attorney General Jim Landry asking for the Supreme Court to weigh in on the decision regarding the states congressional maps. Judge Shelly Dick found that having only one such district among six seats in a state that’s nearly a third African-American violates the Voting Rights Act. But the Republicans say the ruling “throws the election process into chaos, and creates confusion statewide.” The judge refused to give legislators another 10 days. The state officials say Louisiana’s case presents the same question as a case from Alabama that’s before the Supreme Court.
The Louisiana Senate Governmental Affairs Committee voted Friday against two proposed maps that would create two majority black districts in the state instead of one.
The session will proceed until Monday; however, creating a new congressional map is now in limbo due to the decision made Friday by lawmakers.
An outcome of a map being approved is unlikely as some GOP members hope for the clock to run out before a map can be approved, leaving it in the hands of an appeals court or the United States Supreme Court.
This comes after a request from Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin and Attorney General Jim Landry asking for the Supreme Court to weigh in on the decision regarding the states congressional maps.
Judge Shelly Dick found that having only one such district among six seats in a state that’s nearly a third African-American violates the Voting Rights Act.
But the Republicans say the ruling “throws the election process into chaos, and creates confusion statewide.”
The judge refused to give legislators another 10 days. The state officials say Louisiana’s case presents the same question as a case from Alabama that’s before the Supreme Court.
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