{"id":120050,"date":"2023-10-20T16:32:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120050"},"modified":"2023-10-20T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:32:28","slug":"us-supreme-court-wont-intervene-in-louisiana-electoral-map-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120050","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;US Supreme Court won&#8217;t intervene in Louisiana electoral map fight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/us-supreme-court-declines-allow-hearing-new-louisiana-electoral-map-2023-10-19\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/us-supreme-court-declines-allow-hearing-new-louisiana-electoral-map-2023-10-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>: &#8220;The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday opted not to intervene in a legal fight over Louisiana&#8217;s disputed map of its six congressional districts, potentially delaying the adoption of one to replace a Republican-crafted version that a judge found unlawfully diluted the clout of Black voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Black voters and civil rights activists who challenged that map had asked the Supreme Court to lift a lower court&#8217;s order that has blocked U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick from proceeding on choosing a replacement map for Louisiana&#8217;s U.S. House of Representatives districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the Supreme Court turned down the request, leaving uncertainty over the timing of a replacement map that may include a second majority-Black congressional district &#8211; a feature that would benefit Democrats as they seek next year to take back control of the House from Republicans.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: &#8220;The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday opted not to intervene in a legal fight over Louisiana&#8217;s disputed map of its six congressional districts, potentially delaying the adoption of one to replace a Republican-crafted version that a judge found unlawfully diluted the clout of Black voters. The Black voters and civil rights activists who challenged&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120051,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120050\/revisions\/120051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}