The Louisiana Senate on Friday passed a new Congressional map that gives the Republicans an extra seat.
Republican Governor Jeff Landry will sign the new map.
On Thursday, the Louisiana House approved a new Congressional map that eliminates a racially gerrymandered district, sending the bill to the Senate.
Louisiana delayed its House primaries late last month after a blockbuster Supreme Court ruling on a key Voting Rights Act provision.
The Supreme Court recently declared Louisiana’s previous Congressional map an unconstitutional gerrymander.
The AP reported:
Louisiana lawmakers passed a new congressional map Friday designed to pick up a Republican seat while leaving the state with just one of its two majority-Black House districts represented by Democrats.
Approval of the new House map came a month after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state’s current map as an illegal racial gerrymander, weakening the landmark 1965 federal Voting Rights Act. That decision intensified a national redistricting battle fueled by President Donald Trump’s efforts to protect the Republicans’ slim House majority in the midterm elections.
Louisiana Republicans had considered drawing a map giving the party a shot at winning all six of the state’s U.S. House seats. But that would have required adding more Black voters to Republican-held districts, potentially backfiring with losses. Some Republicans said a 5-1 map better protects U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson from facing a difficult reelection.
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