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A panel of federal judges rejected a newly drawn congressional map Tuesday that would have created a second majority-Black district in Louisiana. The move tees up a potential redistricting battle in the nation’s high court. In a 2-1 ruling, the judges ruled the new maps constituted an “impermissible racial gerrymander” in violation of the U.S.…
BATON ROUGE — A handful of intervenors in the battle over Louisiana s proposed congressional map filed a notice of appeal Wednesday after a three-judge panel tossed out a plan that would have established a second minority-majority district extending from Shreveport to Baton Rouge.