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The judicial panel on April 30 had ruled 2-1 that the map was chiefly influenced by race in violation of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection, and ordered that a ...
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Over the weekend, voters approved all four constitutional amendments on the ballot in the 2024 December election. Amendment one received 53% of the vote, which now grants ...
The panel had directed Louisiana's legislature to devise a new map by June 3, though the Supreme Court stepped in to allow the disputed map to be used in the 2024 election.
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The beginning of statehood for Louisiana began with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. In 1804, the land the United States purchased from France was divided in two territories: 1) the Louisiana Territory (upper territory) and 2) the area below the 33rd parallel (current Louisiana-Arkansas state line), the Orleans Territory each as an organized incorporated territory of the United States.
Louisiana first responders would get property tax break as one of four proposed amendments to Louisiana Constitution. ... amended 213 times since it was ratified in 1974. ... Sunday Night Football.
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. [7]
The three-judge panel issued a 2-1 decision last week ruling Louisiana's congressional map creating a second Black majority district was unconstitutional because of “an impermissible racial ...