Washington – and supreme court On Monday, an unusual issue is heard in which civil rights groups are in an initial alliance with Republican officials in defending a map in Congress in Louisiana, which includes the majority of the majority for the first time in decades.
The judges took a call that the state brought about its efforts to draw a map while sustaining the left and right about whether he was thinking appropriately about race to do so.
The case has a complex history, resulting from an original map drawn by the Legislative Authority after the 2020 census, which included only one black majority area of the six state regions. About a third of the state’s population is black.
Civil rights groups, including the Legal Defense Fund, sued and eventually won, on the pretext that the voting rights law requires two major black provinces.
This led to a new lawsuit filed by a group of “non -African non -African” voters led by Philip Calis and 11 other prosecutors who said that the latest map, which is at the present time, violated the fourteenth amendment to the constitution, which requires the law to apply equally to everyone.
The Federal Court struck the new map, but the state successfully asked the Supreme Court to prevent the ruling last year, which means that the map was used in the November elections. Representative Cleo Fields, de la, Win The newly drawn area.
Now, the Supreme Court will decide whether the map of 2024 can remain in place, which weighs many legal questions, including whether the prosecutors who filed a penis claim to them have done so.
The court can also advance further and deepen a charged issue about the extent of the vote rights law, which requires consideration of race when providing provinces, in tension with the fourteenth amendment, which conservatives say it gives any consideration of race in government decisions.
Although state officials are defending the new map, they also said in the court files that the court should consider preventing such lawsuits completely as “inappropriate”, which means that they are so -nature politicians that the case should be left to political branches.
Louisiana’s lawyer, General Benjamin Agwiga, has written that the state is currently being prosecuted regardless of what it is doing, causing millions of dollars to spend on legal expenses.
“No one really wins the fighting – losing the state, losing its voters, losing the judiciary, and losing democracy itself,” he wrote.
The competitors in the papers of the court said that the new map constitutes “Jerianander is a hateful racist.” They added that any of the state’s reasons constitute a “convincing justification for violating the fourteenth amendment.”
Meanwhile, civil rights groups that filed a lawsuit against the court originally urged support for the new map, noting that upon its drawing, the state partially relied on party political considerations aimed at protecting the current Republicans, including Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson, from Louisiana.
The Supreme Court has a majority of 6-3 provinces often accept conservative claims that the constitution is “colorful”, and this means that no consideration of race can be legal even if it aims to treat past discrimination.
But in an unexpected step, the court in 2023 Again confirmed the voting rights law In the case of re -dividing the circles in the Congress emerging from Alabama.
