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The justices took up appeals of a decision by a panel of three federal judges that found that the map laying out Louisiana's six U.S. House of Representatives districts - with two Black-majority ...
Three federal judges who threw out Louisiana's new congressional map asked the state's chief elections officer Monday for a hard deadline on the latest a map can be in place to conduct the Nov. 5 ...
A federal three-judge panel has asked the Louisiana Legislature to draw yet another congressional map by June 3 or have the court produce "interim" boundaries to conduct the Nov. 5 election.
The Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up the fight over Louisiana’s congressional map, which has erupted into a messy legal battle over how to fix a racially gerrymandered design. The ...
He was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1991 and the Louisiana Senate in 1993. [3] [5] He was elected judge of the First Circuit Court of Appeal in 1997, [3] and was sworn in as chief judge on January 1, 2023. [5] He is the first Black chief judge in the history of the court. [2]
The high court eventually affirmed the ruling from Alabama and returned the Louisiana case to federal court, with the expectation that new maps would be in place for the 2024 elections. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave lawmakers in Louisiana a deadline of early 2024 to draw a new map or face the possibility of a court-imposed map.
To be chief, a judge must have been in active service on the court for at least one year, be under the age of 65, and have not previously served as chief judge. A vacancy is filled by the judge highest in seniority among the group of qualified judges. The chief judge serves for a term of seven years, or until age 70, whichever occurs first.
The 2-1 ruling forbids the use of a map drawn up in January by the Legislature after a different federal judge blocked a map from 2022. An appeal of Tuesday’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court is ...