A lawsuit challenging the most recent congressional has been filed on behalf of twelve plaintiffs who identify themselves as non-African American voters. Monroe attorney Paul Hurd said like the congressional map in the 1990s that created a Z-shaped district, this map is drawn along racial lines, not communities of interests.
“It is the most disjointed congressional districting map in Louisiana history since the Zorro, since the slash that was previously held unconstitutional,” said Hurd.
The map in question was passed by the legislature in a special session last month that created a second majority-Black district that stretches the 6th congressional district from Baton Rouge to Shreveport. Hurd, who’s litigated congressional maps in Louisiana and other states before, said he hopes the unconstitutional nature of the 6th district is as apparent to the court as it is to his clients.
“And then we know that’s not the remedy and then the point becomes what does the court do to get voters a good district to vote in 2024, and we will,” said Hurd.
Hurd said his clients filed the suit to put voters in communities of interest back together.
“This plan has no common interests in the voters from Caddo to south Baton Rouge other than race and that’s just not how we want to do politics in Louisiana anymore,” said Hurd.
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