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The Supreme Court on Monday night granted a request to immediately finalize its opinion in Louisiana v. Callais, in which it struck down that state’s congressional map, to allow Louisiana to draw a new map in time for the 2026 elections. That map is expected to favor Republicans, who currently hold four of the state’s six seats in the U.S. House of Representatives but could pick up one or even two more under a revised map. The court’s decision drew sharp criticism from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the lone dissenter. Jackson argued that the court’s ruling “has spawned chaos in...

Representatives claim newly drawn congressional districts violate the law By Chuck Lindell AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, October 30, 2003 WASHINGTON -- Texas Democrats, meeting Wednesday with Justice Department lawyers, declared that the state's newly drawn congressional districts should be tossed out because they reduce minority voting strength. The nine Democrats, from districts with heavy concentrations of African American and Hispanic voters, sought to refute Republican claims that the GOP-drawn map creates 11 minority-controlled districts, unchanged from the previous map. Looking at the same numbers, Democrats see 10 districts where minority voters can determine election results, a decline that would violate the...