🚨 Callais plaintiffs accuse Louisiana of dragging out the redistricting process and concealing the state’s true election deadline to keep an allegedly unconstitutional race-based congressional map in place for the 2026 elections.
Plaintiffs argue that Louisiana’s leading proposed congressional map, SB121, preserves the race-based structure of the current majority-Black 2nd District, emulating the 2022 and 2011 maps.
The filing says Louisiana officials have repeatedly refused to disclose the state’s actual deadline for implementing a new congressional map, even as lawmakers move slowly on redistricting legislation.
Plaintiffs warn that if state officials wait too long to finalize a map, courts could become reluctant to order further changes close to the 2026 elections because of election-administration concerns under the Supreme Court’s Purcell doctrine.
Read the motion here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
For those confused:
The Callais plaintiffs are the ones who successfully defeated the map with two-majority black seats at SCOTUS last month.
They now argue that Louisiana’s leading proposed map with one remaining majority-black seat may be unconstitutional as designed.
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