Louisiana passes new congressional map, dismantling one majority-Black district

Louisiana Republicans approved a new congressional map Friday, eliminating one of the state’s two majority-Black districts and drawing an additional Republican-leaning district in its place

Louisiana Republicans approved a new congressional map Friday, eliminating one of the state’s two majority-Black districts and drawing an additional Republican-leaning district in its place.

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The map, which is expected to help elect five Republicans and one Democrat to Congress, was passed out of the state Senate on Friday afternoon after being tweaked in the state House earlier in the week. Republicans currently have a 4-2 advantage in Louisiana’s U.S. House delegation.

Legislators drew the new lines in response to a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Louisiana v. Callais, which found the existing congressional map in Louisiana to be a racial gerrymander and further weakened the Voting Rights Act.