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Black voters are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review yesterday’s decision by two Trump-appointed federal judges that blocked Louisiana’s new congressional map with two majority-Black districts.
A federal court has struck down the congressional map intended to better represent Louisiana’s Black voters in compliance with the Voting Rights Act.
Voters in Louisiana could soon have a new Supreme Court map for the first time in over two decades if Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signs a bill passed by the Legislature that would create two majority-Black districts.
The U.S. Supreme Court this morning declined to take up a Republican legal challenge to Washington’s state-level voting rights act, thereby leaving in place the law’s robust protections for minority voters.
A federal judge in Florida yesterday struck down Miami’s city commission districts for being unconstitutional racial gerrymanders and ordered the implementation of a new map for future elections.
U.S. Rep. Wiley Nickel (D-N.C.) introduced federal legislation on Tuesday that proposes establishing independent, nonpartisan redistricting commissions in every state.
The same federal court that struck down South Carolina’s congressional map for being an unconstitutional racial gerrymander ruled today that the state can use the map in the upcoming 2024 elections.
In a unanimous opinion handed down this evening, a federal three-judge panel upheld Florida’s congressional districts, rejecting a lawsuit from civil rights groups that alleged the map intentionally discriminates against Black voters in North Florida.
Washington State will make changes to its legislative districts and voting rules ahead of the November 2024 elections as a result of two pro-voting court orders issued on Friday.
Yesterday, in a pair of orders a Nevada judge determined the fate of three ballot initiatives in the Silver State.