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By a 27-10 vote, the Senate passed a bill that would draw out the House district currently represented by Rep. Cleo Fields (D), replacing it with one far more likely to vote for a Republican.
At 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Louisiana Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 4-3 down party lines to advance a bill to the floor that would draw out the majority-Black U.S House seat currently held by Rep. Cleo Fields (D).
The comments quickly made their way into a court filing.
Sen. Booker stopped short of saying he would support expanding the number of SCOTUS justices, but doubled-down on saying the court is corrupt.
The Guardian found that Justice Samuel Alito used “misleading” data in determining that Black and white voter turnout rates have reached parity.
As legislatures rammed through unfair redraws, Black elected leaders and voters tried to show the world how Republicans are rolling back their civil rights.
Voting rights organizations across the South Friday pledged to oppose the GOP’s efforts to rig congressional maps in its favor after the Supreme Court gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act last week.
The U.S. Supreme Court shot down a request Wednesday to reconsider fast-tracking the order implementing its decision in Louisiana v. Callais, the case that gutted the Voting Rights Act.
The Black voters who successfully sued Louisiana to redraw its congressional map to add another majority-minority district in 2023 — only to have that redraw struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in last week’s Louisiana v. Callais decision — are now asking the Court to recall its quick order Monday clearing the way for a rushed redistricting during a paused primary election.
Roughly 42,000 voters cast ballots in Louisiana’s elections when Gov. Jeff Landry’s (R) suspension of congressional primaries went into effect, according to recent early voting data published by state officials.
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