Voting rights advocates have filed an emergency motion asking the Supreme Court to keep in place a new Louisiana congressional map that gives the state a second majority Black district. Wednesday’s Supreme Court filing seeks to block an April 30 ruling from a divided panel of federal judges.
FILE - Louisiana Attorney General candidate Liz Murrill takes part in a forum as part of the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana ’s 2023 conference, April 26, 2023, at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Baton Rouge, La. A panel of federal judges who recently threw out a congressional election map giving Louisiana a second mostly Black district said Tuesday, May 7, 2024, that the state Legislature must pass a new map by June 3 or face having the panel impose one on the state.
Voting patterns show a new mostly Black district would give Democrats the chance to capture another House seat. The new map converted District 6, represented by Republican Rep. Garret Graves. Democratic state Sen. Cleo Fields, a former congressman who is Black, had said he would run for the seat. The state has five white Republican U.S. House members and one Black member who is a Democrat. All were elected most recently under a map the Legislature drew up in 2022.
The Legislature responded with the latest map creating a new district crossing the state diagonally and linking Black populations from Shreveport in the northwest, Alexandria in the center and Lafayette and Baton Rouge in the south.
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