Republican AGs seek to use Louisiana redistricting case to weaken Voting Rights Act

Fourteen Republican attorneys general argue that a federal judge’s interpretation of the Voting Rights Act in a ruling that overturned Louisiana’s legislative maps was unconstitutional.

The attorneys general, led by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, stated their case in an amicus brief filed Wednesday in the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans for the case Nairne v. Ardoin.

“States deserve fair notice regarding how to draft redistricting laws that comply with federal law,” the brief reads.