U.S. Supreme Court tosses race-based dispute over Louisiana electoral map

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday returned a closely watched legal battle over a map delineating Louisiana's six U.S. House of Representatives districts to a lower court, dismissing a bid by a Republican senior state official to defend the plan in a challenge brought by Black voters. The justices had taken up the case last year but put it on hold pending their ruling in a similar case from Alabama, which they issued on June 8. The justices dismissed the appeal by Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin of a federal judge's decision that the map drawn by the Republic...