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Effort to block second majority-Black district in Louisiana comes to Supreme Court

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After a court compelled the Louisiana legislature to draft a new voting map with a second majority-Black district, a group of Louisiana voters, describing themselves as “non-African American,” sued to block the new map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Louisiana, though critical of federal voting rights law, tells the justices that politics, rather than race, motivated the creation of the map.

The frieze over the Supreme Court steps

The March session will begin on Monday with Louisiana v. Callais. (Amy Lutz via Shutterstock)

OPINION ANALYSIS

Court rules for former Chicago alderman on “false statement” charges

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In a unanimous opinion on Friday, the court ruled for Patrick Thompson, a member of Chicago’s Daley political dynasty, that the federal law under which he was convicted for making false statements to bank regulators about loans he took out does not apply to statements that are misleading but not false. Justices Alito and Jackson filed concurring opinions about the trial court’s instructions to the jury.

RELIST WATCH

Justices consider next steps in murder case in which prosecution admits error

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A regular round-up of “relisted” petitions. This week: Areli Escobar was convicted and sentenced to death in Texas for sexual assault and murder. But the defense later found that DNA evidence used in his case was compromised by serious forensic misconduct at the Austin Police Department’s lab. Escobar now asks the Supreme Court to consider his case, in which the county district attorney no longer defends his conviction.  

SCOTUS NEWS

Chief justice rebukes Trump’s call for judicial impeachment

In a brief, rare public statement on Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts responded to President Donald Trump’s call to impeach a federal judge who had moved to block his efforts to deport 200 people to El Salvador over the weekend. Roberts wrote that impeachment was “not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.”

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