The Supreme Court just struck down a Louisiana map that fairly represents Black voters, gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
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In major Voting Rights Act case, Supreme Court strikes down redistricting map challenged as racially discriminatory
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. 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.
A federal judge agreed that the 2022 map likely violated Section 2, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld that ruling. It instructed Louisiana to draw a new map by January 2024 or risk having the court adopt one for it.
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.
The map also prompted the lawsuit leading to Wednesday’s opinion. 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.
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Leben in der Krebsallee
Die Anlage würde von Formosa Plastics, einem taiwanesischen Unternehmen, in St. James Parish, einer der Louisiana River Parishes, einer einkommensschwachen, hauptsächlich schwarzen Gemeinde, die bereits weit mehr als ihren Anteil an der industriellen Verschmutzung hat, gebaut werden. Daher der Name: Cancer Alley. Die vorgeschlagene Anlage, die Formosa das Sunshine Project (benannt nach einer örtlichen Brücke) nennt, wäre eine der größten Kunststofffabriken der Welt. Sie hat die Genehmigung sowohl des Staates als auch der lokalen Behörden erhalten – immerhin handelt es sich um eine Investition von 9,4 Milliarden Dollar -, so dass es an den Anwohnern liegt, auf eigene Faust zu kämpfen, um ihr Gemeinwesen zu retten.
ACLU of Louisiana Statement on Fatal Shooting by Lafayette Police Officers
The report finds that fatal shootings by police are so routine that, even during a national pandemic, with far fewer people traveling outside of their homes, police have continued to fatally shoot people at the same rate so far in 2020 as they did in the same period from 2015 to 2019.
Louisiana Governor Asks Judge to Resign After Racist Texts
LeBlanc’s district spans Ascension, Assumption and St. James parishes, which lie along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans and includes portions of both cities’ metropolitan areas. The area, still rich in architecturally significant plantation homes, was once abundant in crops tended by black slaves. Today, factories and refineries replace the crops in portions of the district that lie inside what has become known as Cancer Alley.
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2 Louisiana police officers fired over Facebook post suggesting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be shot
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