Black Louisiana voters and civil rights advocates rally outside the Supreme Court calling for a fair congressional map in Louisiana v. Callais on March 24, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Legal Defense Fund)
Louisiana, for its part, has abruptly changed its position since March.
Louisiana Attorney General Elizabeth Murrill asked the Supreme Court in August to invalidate the 2024 map — an about-face from its earlier position — and urged the justices to rule more broadly that race-based redistricting is unconstitutional.
Political activists speak outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, urging lawmakers to uphold a fair and representative congressional map for Louisiana voters on March 24, 2025. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Legal Defense Fund)
Louisiana has redrawn its congressional map twice since the 2020 census. The first version — which included only one majority-Black district — was blocked by a federal court and later by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2022.
Both courts sided with the NAACP voters, and the Fifth Circuit ordered the state to adopt by January 2024 a new state redistricting map.
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The Supreme Court’s request for additional arguments comes at a pivotal time, as several Republican-led states have attempted to aggressively push through new congressional maps of their own.
They also argued in filings to the Supreme Court that non-Black voters failed to show the direct harm required for equal protection claims or prove race was the main factor in redrawing the map.
Breanne Deppisch is a national politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering the Trump administration, with a focus on the Justice Department, FBI and other national news. She previously covered national politics at the Washington Examiner and The Washington Post, with additional bylines in Politico Magazine, the Colorado Gazette and others. You can send tips to Breanne at Breanne.Deppisch@fox.com, or follow her on X at @breanne_dep.
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