Johnson v. Ardoin
Louisiana
The NRF is supporting a lawsuit filed by African-American voters against the Louisiana Secretary of State, challenging the state’s congressional district map. The lawsuit alleges that the state legislature was required to draw an additional majority-minority congressional district in the 2011 map under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Notwithstanding that African-American voters are sufficient both in population and compactness to form two majority minority districts, the Louisiana state legislature created only one such district (District 2) and cracked the rest of the Black population into two non majority-minority districts (Districts 5 and 6).