On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court gutted an important part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, with a 6-3 ruling in the case Louisiana v. Callais. The ruling rejected a Louisiana voting map that would have created a second majority-Black congressional district. Civil rights advocates and organizers around the nation…

The same group that successfully brought the case that eliminated the 6th Congressional District is now pressing to get the 2nd Congressional District redrawn. Voting rights groups in the state are trying to stop that from happening.