Advocates say Supreme Court must preserve new, mostly Black US House district for 2024 elections
Associated PressNEW ORLEANS — Voting rights advocates said Wednesday they will go to the Supreme Court in hopes of preserving a new majority Black congressional district in Louisiana for the fall elections, the latest step in a complicated legal fight that could determine the fate of political careers and the balance of power in the next Congress. Jared Evans, an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, said that by the end of the week advocates will ask the Supreme Court to keep the new maps in place for 2024, pending further legal action. “At this point with the election six months away, the Supreme Court’s going to have to step in and say SB8 can move forward or it can’t,” Evans said. Either the Legislature is in control of drawing a map or Federal Courts are, but they both can’t be!” Landry, a former attorney general, had defended a 2022 map with only one mostly Black district among six.