The Supreme Court is a challenge for a voter map in Louisiani, with a potentially widespread consequences

AND Supreme Court On Monday, they heard arguments about whether Louisiana MPs could use a race as a factor when drawing congress tickets, a carefully observed case that could affect voters across the country in the middle agents of 2026.

It is disputed whether the state congress map, updated twice from the 2020 census, an illegal racial gerrymander. He faced two challenges of the Federal Court – first, for the dilution of the electorate of minorities under the 1965 Copper Law, and recently due to the potential violation of the clause on the same protection of 14 amendments and the 15th Amendment of the American Constitution.

The High Court, which agreed that it would happen last fall, is expected to make a decision by the end of June.

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During oral arguments, the judges focused closely on that Louisiana are by redestructing efforts They were closely adapted to satisfy the constitutional requirements and whether the race was used in a way that violated the law, as prosecutors claimed.

Lawyer Louisiane Benjamin Aguiñaga claimed that the latest map of the state protected political stability, including preserving leading positions such as the president of the US home and leaders of the majority.

“I want to emphasize that the bigger picture is important here-in the election year, we faced the appearance of a federal court map that put the president of the home, the leader of most of the house and our representative on the approval committee,” Aguiñaga said. “And so, in the light of these facts, we made a politically rational decision: we pulled out our map to protect them.”

The Louisiana Congress Map has twice been challenged in the federal court since it was updated after the 2020 census, which found that the state blacks were now presenting one -third of the total population of Louisiane.

The first redisor map, which included only one district in which the black voters held the majority, the Federal Court resulted (and then, the US appellant in the fifth round) 2022.

Both courts were raised with the NAACP state conference, other prosecutors Louisiane, who claimed that the map had violated Article 2 of the Law on voting rights, diluting the voting power of black voters in the country.

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The court ordered the legislators to adopt by January 2024, a new state map for the redistribution. This map, SB 8, was adopted and included the creation of another majority-black voting district in the country.

But SB 8 was almost immediately caused by a group of prosecutors who were not black in court, after arguing that the problem was with a new district that stretched some 250 miles from the northwestern corner of Louisiane Shreveport to Baton Rouge, in the southeast of the state.

The lawsuit claimed that the state had violated the clause on the same protection by relying too much on the race to draw tickets and create “sinus and serrated other black district based on racial stereotypes, racially” Balkanizing “250 miles of miles of Louisiane.”

The Supreme Court agreed last November to accept the case, although the consideration of arguments paused 2024 elections.

In the meantime, Louisian officials argued in the court priests that voters who did not manage to show direct damage needed for equal requirements for protection or prove that Rasa is a major factor in drawing a map.

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They also emphasized that the Supreme Court should clarify that the states should continue in accordance with this “notoriously vague area of ​​the law” set by Article 2 of the Law on voting rights against equal protection, describing them as two “competitive demands”.

Officials cited frustrations for repeated cartoons, and the possibility that they would once again order the drawing committee and asked the court to “stop the extraordinary waste of time and resources that plague the states after each cycle of redistributed.”