A group of Black voters and civil rights groups on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to let Louisiana use its newest congressional map for this year’s elections, urging them to halt a court ruling that the map violated the Constitution.
That ruling from a three-judge federal court panel last month found the state’s new congressional map violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and ordered that it not be used.
The State Legislature drew that map in January with a second Black-opportunity district following years of litigation over the Voting Rights Act. Wednesday’s application asked the justices to let the state use that January map this fall.
