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Lawsuit seeks to block Louisiana's new congressional map, 2nd mostly Black district

NEW ORLEANS (AP) —The Louisiana Legislature's redrawn congressional map giving the state a second mostly Black district is being challenged by 12 self-described 'non-African American' voters in a new lawsuit.

The challenge filed Wednesday and assigned to a judge in Lafayette says the map, which Republican lawmakers agreed to as a result of a 2022 federal lawsuit filed in Baton Rouge, is the result …

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