State’s attorney general also appealing to allow new, majority-Black district to stand for November election

Civil rights groups insisted that the Supreme Court take up Louisiana’s redistricting battle on Wednesday in an attempt to maintain a second majority-black congressional district that was recently drawn.

Civil rights groups urged the US Supreme Court to step into Louisiana’s fraught and potentially far-reaching redistricting battle on Wednesday, asking the justices to rule against some White voters who claim the state legislature violated the Constitution when it drew a second majority-Black district in its congressional map.