Black Louisiana voters ask US supreme court to confirm congressional district
Source: The Guardian
Thu 9 May 2024 06.00 EDT
Black Louisiana voters are working against the clock to keep a panel of conservative federal judges from blocking a new Black-majority congressional district from being in effect for the November election. The Louisiana state conference of the NAACP, advocating for that district, asked the US supreme court Wednesday to put on hold the order of the fifth circuit court of appeals, which on 30 April invalidated Louisiana’s new congressional district map for the 2024 election.
State lawmakers redrew congressional district lines this year to comply with the order of Shelly Dick, the chief US district judge of Baton Rouge, who after years of litigation ruled in Robinson v Landry in January that Louisiana’s district lines unfairly denied Black voters the ability to elect candidates of their choice under the Voting Rights Act.
Black voters comprise about a third of Louisiana’s voting-age population, but only one of the state’s six congressional representatives is Black. Louisiana voters are highly polarized by race; districts with white majorities in Louisiana have never elected a Black congressional candidate.
“We are undeterred in our fight for a fair map in Louisiana,” said Ashley Shelton, president and CEO of Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, a litigant in the case that established the new district. “We will continue to fight for a map that reflects our communities, that honors the promise of the Voting Rights Act, and that respects the voices of thousands of Louisianians who have engaged throughout the redistricting process.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/louisiana-black-voters-supreme-court
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....I feel they're going to do one of two things: 1st, slow walk it for later (after the election) or 2nd, they say no. I mean, with 6 rabidly mad RW clowns on the SC, I don't see how a reasonable and fair outcome will result. I hope I'm wrong but just look at the mess with the Florida judge. 
