The Florida Supreme Court will consider an appeal from voting rights groups challenging a congressional map drawn by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022 that eliminated a majority Black district.
Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) is warning that Louisiana’s “boneheaded” new congressional map could put House Republicans in jeopardy of losing their majority come November, after his district was redrawn to create a majority-Black district. “In doing so [Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)] has a two-seat majority and they effectively just took one of those seats away voluntarily,”…
Louisiana lawmakers on Friday approved a new congressional map that gives the state a second Black-majority US House district and likely puts at risk a Republican-controlled seat.