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Louisiana urges Supreme Court to reject race in redistricting
Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to bar any consideration of race in redistricting, abandoning its defense of its own current congressional map in a move that could reshape the Voting Rights Act.
In a new brief Wednesday, the state called race-based redistricting “fundamentally contrary to our Constitution” and urged the justices to deem its intentional creation of a second majority-Black congressional district unconstitutional.
“Louisiana wants out of this...