Democrats pitch second majority-minority district in Congress for Louisiana; Republicans resist

A state Senate committee stopped short of advancing any maps of revised district lines for Louisiana’s seats in Congress, choosing Thursday to defer multiple options submitted this week.

Nonetheless, members of the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee studied six proposed versions – five submitted by Democrats and one from a Republican.

Sen. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, offered three maps the NAACP Legal Defense Fund has drawn. Each would create two minority districts out of Louisiana’s 2nd and 5th congressional districts..

Sen. Jay Luneau, D-Alexandria, proposed a map with two majority-minority strongholds in the same two districts. Luneau’s 5th District, which Julia Letlow, R-Monroe, currently represents, would capture much of Shreveport and Baton Rouge, giving the district a minority edge with 54% of its registered voters Black and 42% white.

Read more: https://lailluminator.com/2022/02/03/louisiana-senate-committee-takes-deliberate-pace-with-new-congressional-maps/