Louisiana
Gov. John Bel Edwards sets date for special session on redistricting maps
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards formally known as for a particular session of the legislature to redraw the state’s congressional district maps with two majority Black districts.This comes after a ruling Monday from the U.S. Court docket for the Center District of Louisiana requiring the maps be redrawn. “The Center District’s ruling yesterday that the Congressional maps drawn by Louisiana’s Legislature earlier this 12 months violate Part 2 of the Voting Rights Act is appropriate and fully unsurprising, which is why I vetoed these maps initially. It’s crucial that the Louisiana Legislature come to Baton Rouge to redraw these maps rapidly and pretty, in compliance with the decide’s order and earlier than the autumn elections,” Gov. Edwards stated in an announcement. “Louisiana’s congressional map of six districts must include at the very least two majority African American districts with a purpose to be truthful to Louisiana’s voting inhabitants, which is one-third Black voters, per the newest U.S. Census knowledge. That is required by basic math, primary equity and the rule of legislation.”The particular session will start on June 15 and should adjourn by 6 p.m. on June 20.Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin is looking for a federal decide to delay her order for the brand new congressional district map. Ardoin’s movement filed Tuesday in Baton Rouge says the Legislature will not be capable of convene in a particular session and full work on a brand new map by the June 20 deadline set in Monday’s order by U.S. District Decide Shelly Dick. Edwards stated the present maps drawn up by the Republican-led Legislature ought to have included a second majority Black district.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards formally known as for a particular session of the legislature to redraw the state’s congressional district maps with two majority Black districts.
This comes after a ruling Monday from the U.S. Court docket for the Center District of Louisiana requiring the maps be redrawn.
“The Center District’s ruling yesterday that the Congressional maps drawn by Louisiana’s Legislature earlier this 12 months violate Part 2 of the Voting Rights Act is appropriate and fully unsurprising, which is why I vetoed these maps initially. It’s crucial that the Louisiana Legislature come to Baton Rouge to redraw these maps rapidly and pretty, in compliance with the decide’s order and earlier than the autumn elections,” Gov. Edwards stated in an announcement. “Louisiana’s congressional map of six districts must include at the very least two majority African American districts with a purpose to be truthful to Louisiana’s voting inhabitants, which is one-third Black voters, per the newest U.S. Census knowledge. That is required by basic math, primary equity and the rule of legislation.”
The particular session will start on June 15 and should adjourn by 6 p.m. on June 20.
Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin is looking for a federal decide to delay her order for the brand new congressional district map.
Ardoin’s movement filed Tuesday in Baton Rouge says the Legislature will not be capable of convene in a particular session and full work on a brand new map by the June 20 deadline set in Monday’s order by U.S. District Decide Shelly Dick.
Edwards stated the present maps drawn up by the Republican-led Legislature ought to have included a second majority Black district.