Black Louisiana voters ask US supreme court to confirm congressional district

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

Black Louisiana voters are working against the clock to keep a panel of conservative federal judges from blocking a new Black-majority congressional district from being in effect for the November election.

The Louisiana state conference of the NAACP, advocating for that district, asked the US supreme court Wednesday to put on hold the order of the fifth circuit court of appeals, which on 30 April invalidated Louisiana's new congressional district map for the 2024 election.