Louisiana Republicans are poised to pass new US House districts in wider redistricting fight
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s Republican-controlled Senate is poised to pass a plan Friday to help the GOP maintain control of the U. S. House in November, potentially becoming the latest Southern state to eliminate a majority-Black congressional district that elected a Democrat. The state Senate is set to vote on a redistricting plan that would give Republicans a chance to pick up an additional seat in response to late April’s U. S. Supreme Court ruling that Louisiana’s district...
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