Overview

• Louisia­na’s new brief calls race-based redistricting “fundamentally contrary” to the Constitution and declines to defend the 2024 map that added a second majority-Black district.
• The filing urges the court to reject the Gingles framework and any claim that Section 2 provides a safe harbor for using race, arguing the regime is unconstitutional or unworkable.
• Black voters represented by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and allies ask the court to preserve Section 2 and to reinstate the 2024 map or, if needed, to order a new remedy for the earlier Section 2 violation.
• The justices requested supplemental briefing on whether Louisiana’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments.
• The dispute stems from a 2022 map found likely to dilute Black voting strength and a later three-judge ruling that struck down the 2024 remedial map as a racial gerrymander, with Alabama now pressing related arguments in a separate filing.