The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to allow a lower court to move forward with redrawing Louisiana’s congressional map.
A federal district court judge had found that Louisiana’s first map after the 2020 census violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting power of Black voters, and then sought to move forward on the process to have an outside expert redraw it.
But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit last month ordered a halt to the district court judge’s plan, after the state argued its Legislature had not been given the chance to draw its own new map. Separately, the state has appealed the ruling that the original map violated the law, which is still pending at the 5th Circuit.
