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• Gingles, that courts use to determine whether a map violates Section 2 by diluting minority voting power.
• “In sum,” Alito concluded, “because the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district, no compelling interest justified the State’s use of race in creating SB8.
• The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Louisiana congressional map that a group of voters who describe themselves as “non-African American” had challenged as the product of unconstitutional rac….
• By a vote of 6-3, the justices left in place a ruling by a federal court that barred the state from using the map, which had created a second majority-Black district, in future elections.
• The decision was the latest, and presumably final, chapter in a long-running dispute arising from Louisiana’s efforts to adopt a new congressional map in the wake of the 2020 census.

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Detaljeret, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Louisiana congressional map that a group of voters who describe themselves as “non-African American” had challenged as the product of unconstitutional rac….

Konkret, By a vote of 6-3, the justices left in place a ruling by a federal court that barred the state from using the map, which had created a second majority-Black district, in future elections.

Derudover the decision was the latest, and presumably final, chapter in a long-running dispute arising from Louisiana’s efforts to adopt a new congressional map in the wake of the 2020 census.

Det er værd at bemærke, at the first map that the state adopted, in 2022, had one majority-Black district out of the six allotted to the state.

På nuværende tidspunkt a group of Black voters – who comprise roughly one-third of the state’s population – went to federal court, where they alleged that the map violated Section 2 of the VRA, which prohibits discrimination in voting.

Tallene

“In sum,” Alito concluded, “because the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district, no compelling interest justified the State’s use of race in creating SB8.

Konkret, a federal judge agreed that the 2022 map likely violated Section 2, and the U.S.

Derudover Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld that ruling.

Det er værd at bemærke, at it instructed Louisiana to draw a new map by January 2024 or risk having the court adopt one for it.

Baggrunden

Det er værd at bemærke, at the map that Louisiana drew in 2024 created a second majority-Black district, leading to the election in November of that year of Cleo Fields, a former member of Congress who had represented another majority-Black district during the 1990s.

På nuværende tidspunkt it was filed by a group of “non-African American” voters who contended that the 2024 map violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause by sorting voters based on race.

Detaljeret, a three-judge federal district court agreed with them and barred the state from using the 2024 map in future elections, but a divided Supreme Court temporarily paused that ruling in May 2024.

Konkret, the Supreme Court took up the case and heard oral arguments for the first time in March 2025.

Derudover the “non-African American” voters challenging the 2024 map told the justices that it was “utterly implausible” that both race and politics were equally responsible for the 2024 map.

Opsummering

• The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Louisiana congressional map that a group of voters who describe themselves as “non-African American” had challenged as the product of unconstitutional rac….
• The decision was the latest, and presumably final, chapter in a long-running dispute arising from Louisiana’s efforts to adopt a new congressional map in the wake of the 2020 census.
• The first map that the state adopted, in 2022, had one majority-Black district out of the six allotted to the state.
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