Most & Associates is proud to represent the plaintiffs - five council members and two residents - in a new Voting Rights Act lawsuit challenging the Baton Rouge Metro Council redistricting.
The federal lawsuit, filed in the Middle District of Louisiana, addresses the districts of the East Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council, the governing legislative body of the Parish. The lawsuit explains how a new map of Metro Council districts, set to go into effect in 2025, violates the law by denying Black voters equal opportunity to elect their chosen candidates.
The lawsuit shows how the new map “packs” large numbers of Black voters into a few majority-Black council districts, by placing more than 68.5% of the Parish’s Black registered voters into just 42% of the Parish’s Metro Council districts.
Thus, although white residents have been declining in numbers in Baton Rouge and no longer are the majority group, the new map would increase white control of the Metro Council by creating an additional majority-white council district. In total, the new map would create seven majority-white districts and five majority-Black districts.
Learn more here: https://www.wafb.com/2024/06/27/metro-council-members-sue-city-say-new-district-map-illegal-violates-voting-rights-act/
Watch the whole press conference here: https://t.co/rQbhuMB2lQ
Read the complaint here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lamd.64949/gov.uscourts.lamd.64949.1.0.pdf