BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A panel of Fifth Circuit judges has sided with a group of Black voters in Louisiana who argued the House and Senate state legislative maps passed in 2022 violate the Voting Rights Act.

The Fifth Circuit in January 2025 heard arguments from lawyers who contend that the maps limit Black voting power by packing Black voters into a few majority-minority districts while also splitting up other majority-minority districts.

Chief Judge Shelly Dick from the Middle District of Louisiana heard the case Nairne v. Landry in winter of 2023. She eventually ruled in February 2024 that the maps violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act among other issues.

The Fifth Circuit on Thursday, August 14, affirmed Judge Dick’s decision.

“We strongly disagree with the Fifth Circu

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