{"id":3753,"date":"2024-05-01T00:06:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/federal-judges-strike-down-la-congressional-map-with-second-black-majority-district\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T00:06:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:06:41","slug":"federal-judges-strike-down-la-congressional-map-with-second-black-majority-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/federal-judges-strike-down-la-congressional-map-with-second-black-majority-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judges strike down La. congressional map with second Black-majority district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">A federal three-judge panel on Tuesday threw out Louisiana\u2019s recently redrawn congressional map which would have created a second majority Black district, leaving the state without a settled congressional map some six months before the November elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">In the 2-1 ruling, the 5th Circuit panel found that the redistricting map approved by the Louisiana legislature, in a measure known as SB8, which established a second majority-Black congressional district in the state, \u201cviolates the Equal Protection Clause [of the 14th Amendment] as an impermissible racial gerrymander.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on The Washington Post<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal three-judge panel on Tuesday threw out Louisiana\u2019s recently redrawn congressional map which would have created a second majority Black district, leaving the state without a settled congressional map some six months before the November elections. In the 2-1 ruling, the 5th Circuit panel found that the redistricting map approved by the Louisiana legislature, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}