The state of Louisiana and a bloc of black voters asked the Supreme Court on July 30 to uphold an election map that created a second black-majority congressional district in Louisiana.
The new legal filings came after the Supreme Court voted 6–3 to issue an emergency order in May that for the time being directed Louisiana to use the map in upcoming elections.
Louisiana previously argued in court papers that abandoning the map months before this year’s elections would cause “chaos.”
In the order two months ago, the nation’s highest court left open the question of whether it would reverse a lower court order that overturned the map….