A federal court blocked Louisiana from using a congressional map signed into law this year that had been redrawn to include a second majority-Black district.
A federal court on Tuesday tossed out a newly drawn congressional map that created a second majority-Black district in Louisiana – in a potential blow to Democrats seeking to seize control of the US House in November’s elections.
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.…