Critics of Kansas’ newly enacted congressional maps are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the Kansas Supreme Court decision upholding them.
In a filing last month, the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, the Campaign Legal Center, Loud Light and Elias Law Group asked the high court to consider whether the 14th Amendment prohibits racial discrimination in redistricting when a minority group is not large enough to make up the majority of a district.
The filing comes months after the Kansas Supreme Court upheld the GOP-drawn maps over arguments that the map should be unconstitutional in part because it split Wyandotte County, the state’s most diverse county, between two congressional districts.
