NRF-Supported Voters Call on SCOTUS to Keep Louisiana’s Voting Rights Act-Compliant Map in Place

For Immediate Release
May 10, 2024
Contact
Tomas Graglia
graglia@redistrictingfoundation.org

Washington, D.C. – Today, voters supported by the National Redistricting Foundation (NRF), the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), submitted an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in support of the Galmon Intervenors in Callais v. Landry, asking the Court to keep Louisiana’s Voting Rights Act-compliant map in place while an appeal is underway to reverse a lower court’s decision to block Louisiana’s new, fair, congressional map. 

In 2022, the NRF initiated Galmon v. Ardoin, which was then consolidated with Robinson v. Ardoin, the successful lawsuit that struck down Louisiana’s 2022 congressional map for violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and led to the enactment of Louisiana’s current Voting Rights Act-compliant map in January 2024, which includes two Black opportunity districts. The NRF also initiated and directed the successful challenge against Alabama’s congressional map in Allen v. Milligan.

“The Supreme Court must protect the integrity of our elections and the voting rights of all Louisianians by keeping the current Voting Rights Act-compliant map in place,” said Marina Jenkins, Executive Director of the NRF. “The ideologically-driven decision to block Louisiana’s new, representative, and lawful map was simply wrong on the merits, ignored multiple other court decisions enforcing Section 2 in Louisiana, and must be reversed. While an appeal of that decision makes its way through the process, the Supreme Court must protect the voters by granting an emergency stay.”

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