Louisiana lawmakers approve GOP-backed six-seat House map (opens in new tab)

Louisiana lawmakers approved a new congressional map Friday that is designed to give Republicans a chance to win five of the state’s six U.S. House seats and eliminate one of two majority-Black districts currently represented by Democrats. Republican Gov. Jeff Landry is expected to sign the plan into law. The vote followed a late-April U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down Louisiana’s existing map as an illegal racial gerrymander and weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, according...