A group of Louisiana voters urged the Supreme Court on Monday not to pause a ruling that threw out the state’s latest congressional map, arguing the state’s new map unconstitutionally prioritized race.
The voters argued to keep in place a ruling from a three-judge federal court that blocked the use of the newest map for any election because it violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.
The filing called the new map a “brutal racial gerrymander” and claimed the goal of legislators was to “create two majority-Black districts where race predominates at the expense of all other criteria,” in making the new map.
