The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday opted not to intervene in a legal fight over Louisiana's disputed map of its six congressional districts, potentially delaying the adoption of one to replace a Republican-crafted version that a judge found unlawfully diluted the clout of Black voters.
The Black voters and civil rights activists who challenged that map had asked the Supreme Court to lift a lower court's order that has blocked U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick from proceeding on choosing a replacement map for Louisiana's U.S. House of Representatives districts.
Litigation in the dispute also continues at the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where Republican Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin has appealed Dick's preliminary injunction that blocked the legislature's map. The injunction directed the legislature to create two House districts, rather than just one, where Black voters would represent the majority of voters. Black voters tend to favor Democratic candidates.
Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in a brief opinion concurring in Thursday's decision, said that because the state has said its legislature will not consider drafting a new map that complies with the Voting Rights Act while litigation is pending, Dick will "presumably resume the remedial process" while the 5th Circuit considers Louisiana's appeal.
Stuart Naifeh, a lawyer with NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund representing some of the plaintiffs, expressed disappointment in Supreme Court's decision, calling the 5th Circuit's action in the dispute "entirely inappropriate and unwarranted."
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