The Louisiana Senate approved a new U.S. congressional map on May 14.
The legislation, which advanced 27–10 along party lines on Thursday afternoon, will redraw one of the Pelican State’s two majority-Democratic U.S. House districts ahead of the midterm elections.
The redistricted map will give Republicans an advantage in five of six U.S. House seats while it eliminates a Democrat-leaning district that stretched from Shreveport to Baton Rouge.
Senate Bill 121, sponsored by State Sen. Jay Morris, a Republican, was part of a rush to redistrict congressional maps after the United States Supreme Court ruled on April 29 that race could not be used as the primary factor when drawing boundaries for Louisiana’s electoral districts….
Louisiana Senate Passes New Congressional Map That Removes Majority-Black District
