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Gov. Jeff Landry (R) issued an order pausing next month's primaries until lawmakers can approve a new map, which could help the GOP gain one or two seats in the state this fall.
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Senator Ron Wyden secured an agreement to seek the declassification of a recent intelligence court ruling about the FISA Section 702 program.
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The War Powers Act requires that the Trump administration seek lawmakers' consent to continue hostilities beyond 60 days, a time limit that expires Friday.
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The passage of the landmark law in 1965 helped increase Black representation, especially in the South, according to a Times analysis.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining major provision of the landmark 1965 law that was a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement.
In a 6-3 decision along partisan lines, a majority of justices ruled Wednesday that Louisiana must redraw a congressional map that was designed to create a second majority-Black district in the state, where African Americans have long faced racial segregation and barriers to voting. They said the electoral map "relied too heavily on race," an interpretation that is set to usher in another wave of redistricting across the South to help Republicans win more seats in Congress.
"This is central to whether or not we maintain a multiracial democracy in this country," says lawyer and civil rights activist Maya Wiley, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. She calls Wednesday's ruling "a free pass to discriminate."
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