Louisiana may have to redraw its congressional map to add a second majority-Black district ahead of the 2024 election after a supreme court order on Monday.
The justices on Monday lifted a pause it had imposed in a lawsuit challenging the map last year. Last June, US district judge Shelly Dick ruled that the state’s congressional plan likely violated the Voting Rights Act and ordered the state to redraw it. Black voters comprise about a third of Louisiana’s population but only make up a majority in one of the state’s six congressional districts. The court paused the ruling while it considered a similar case challenging Alabama’s congressional map.
