Press Robinson et al., Appellants
In 2022, a group of Louisiana voters that included Press Robinson, a retired author and university professor, filed suit against the state, alleging that congressional maps drawn by Louisiana legislators earlier that year violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). They claimed that Black voters in the state were not given the opportunity for adequate representation in Congress because only one of the state’s six congressional districts had a Black majority. A federal judge agreed and ordered the state to create a second majority-Black district so the state’s congressional delegation could more adequately reflect the 31…
