Federal court rules that Louisiana county’s system for electing judges set up to prevent blacks from being elected https://t.co/4DkgLhuEjP pic.twitter.com/nMExrlgxTC

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) August 18, 2017

“… Following an eight-day bench trial earlier this year, the court determined that Louisiana’s use of at-large voting for electing five members to the 32nd Judicial District Court (32nd JDC), the state court encompassing Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the U.S. Constitution. This decision paves the way for an end to a nearly 50-year old discriminatory voting practice and for Black voters to have the equal opportunity—for the first time since that state court was created in 1968—to elect their preferred judicial candidates. …”