This map, adopted by the Legislature in January, created a second majority-Black U.S. House district stretching along the Red River.
Two federal judges rejected it last week. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WASHINGTON — The U.S.
Supreme Court is set to decide this week whether Louisiana continues to have two districts, rather than one, designed to give Black candidates a reasonable chance of election to the U.S. House.
The nine justices plan to discuss Callais v. Landry behind closed doors Friday. They will decide whether to hear Louisiana’s redistricting case or send it back to a three-judge panel that in April dismissed the Legislature’s map that allowed two minority-majority congressional districts.
“I can't speculate on what they're going to do,” said state Sen. Royce Duplessis, D-New Orleans, who is elbow-deep in efforts to create a second minority-majority district. “It was the will of the Legislature to have two majority Black districts.
” State Rep. Kyle Green, a Marrero Democrat closely monitoring the litigation, echoed a legal scholar predicting: “The Supreme Court is likely to send the case back to the three-judge panel with instructions.” If so, the long and winding road over Louisiana’s second minority-majority congressional district might continue with a second Black district into 2028 — two years before the next U.
S. Census. Though the last Census counted a third of the state’s population as Black, the Lou.
