Eric Holder Statement on the Supreme Court Blocking Louisiana’s Gerrymandered Congressional Map
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Eric Holder Statement on the Supreme Court Blocking Louisiana’s Gerrymandered Congressional Map
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Supreme Court of the United States lifted a stay on the injunction against Louisiana’s congressional map, which had been achieved last year through an NRF-initiated lawsuit challenging the map under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The Court returned Galmon v. Ardoin, a Republican appeal similar in nature to Allen v. Milligan, to the district court for resumption of the remedial process. This is the next step toward fair maps for Louisiana voters.
Eric H. Holder, Jr., the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, issued the following statement:
“This marks another significant victory in the fight for fair representation—particularly for Black voters in Louisiana, who have had their voting rights wrongly and illegally diminished by power hungry politicians for too long. Similar to Alabama’s congressional map, Louisiana’s map was also a textbook violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, giving Black Louisianans the opportunity to create just one majority-Black district out of six total congressional districts despite the fact that they make up nearly one-third of the state’s population. As a result of this order, Black voters in Louisiana are one step closer to attaining a fair, compliant map—a map that includes two majority-Black congressional districts—that they have tenaciously fought for.”
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