Judge won’t delay order for congressional remap in Louisiana
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Judge won’t delay order for congressional remap in Louisiana

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Baton Rouge refused on Thursday to delay her order for Louisiana to redraw its congressional districts while the state’s top elections official appeals. Court papers for Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin call the deadline “unworkable.” But Dick wrote that the state’s argument was “insincere and not persuasive.” The state requires seven days’ notice of the start of the session and three days for bill reading, she wrote. She noted that House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, who joined the suit on Ardoin’s side, told another judge that Louisiana’s “election calendar is one of the latest in the nation” and that “the election deadlines that actually impact voters do not occur until October 2022.” “A stay increases the risk that Plaintiffs do not have an opportunity to vote under a nondilutive congressional map until 2024, almost halfway through this census cycle,” she wrote. “As we’ve said from the beginning, a map that does not have a second majority Black district violates the law,” said Jared Evans of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Ardoin’s request for a stay noted that “a three-judge district court in Alabama issued an injunction similar to this Court’s, and the Supreme Court stayed that injunction pending appeal.”

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