A lawsuit challenging the state’s newest congressional map with two majority-Black districts has been filed. The map stretches the 6th congressional district from Baton Rouge to Shreveport. Lawsuits were filed against previous maps on behalf of Black voters and La-Politics.com publisher Jeremy Alford said this is an inverse of related litigation on the latest map.
“Where you have a group of non-African American voters, as they identify themselves in the lawsuit, saying that they are being disenfranchised because lawmakers went in and followed the court order,” said Alford.
Alford said politics are involved with the suit, as some of the plaintiffs are supporters of Baton Rouge Congressman Garret Graves.
“Who really kind of got the short straw on these congressional maps. It looks like he’s really facing the biggest challenge in terms of re-election because of the new lines,” said Alford.
Alford said while it seems like the congressional map based on the 2020 Census has been back and forth, it’s nothing new, the same thing happened with the congressional map from the 1990 Census. As for the weight of the newest litigation…
“I don’t imagine that this new lawsuit rather is going to have the same impact as the previous legal challenges that really brought lawmakers back into the session, but we’ll have to see,” said Alford.
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