Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has asked the Supreme Court to strike down a racial redistricting law that forced the state legislature to create a second black-majority congressional district.
The Supreme Court punted last term on deciding the legality of Louisiana’s creation of a second black-majority district in compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, ordering in June that the justices should hear rearguments in October. The rearguments will be on the question of whether Louisiana’s creation of a second black-majority district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments.
Murrill, in a brief filed to the high court on Wednesday, said the state would not defend the congressional map against that standard, arguing it made the map due to a previous court order mandating the creation of
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