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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Louisiana redistricting

NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit granted the Louisiana attorney general’s request to vacate a lower court’s remedial hearing on redistricting. That court failed to follow Supreme Court guidance on legislative reapportionment as being a matter for legislators. To rush redistricting via a court-ordered map would be an abuse of discretion.

Read the ruling here.

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