Loading...
The Associated Press
Host
I met Donahue with an AP News Minute.
The Supreme Court found a black majority congressional district in Louisiana rely too heavily
on race.
It weakens a key tool of the Voting Rights Act.
Jeannie Nelson with ACLU Louisiana says the implications are bad.
They have trampled on Congress's enforcement powers and rewritten the statute that has
allowed us to evolve into the multiracial democracy that we are today.
This could open the door for Republican-led states to eliminate black and Latino electoral
districts.
Press Robinson is the first African-American voted to the school committee in Baton
Rouge.
He says with the ruling, many local and state elected officials will disappear.
And we'll be back where we were at the time.
That slave was declared illegal.
President Trump has already touched off a nationwide redistricting battle to boost Republican
chances.
And Donahue.
AP Newswatch: Top Stories from the Associated Press
