Overview

• Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill told the Court she would not defend the state's remedial congressional map on the constitutional question and urged a ban on race-conscious line-drawing.
• The brief asks the justices to deem Section 2’s race-based remedies unconstitutional and to overrule the Supreme Court’s 1986 Gingles framework as unworkable.
• The Supreme Court ordered new briefing and set Oct. 15 reargument on whether intentionally creating a second majority-minority district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments.
• Voting-rights advocates defending the second Black-majority district called on the Court to reject Louisiana’s constitutional challenge.
• The case follows years of blocked maps and a Court-ordered use of a remedial plan in 2024, and experts warn a ruling for Louisiana could reduce majority-Black districts nationwide.