We will hear argument first this morning in case 24109, Louisiana versus Kale, and the consolidated case.

Mr. Awi Gingya.

Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court.

Louisiana would rather not be here.

We didn't want to be in the emergency docket in 2022.

We didn't want to be on the emergency docket in 2024. And today, I mean, God bless, my friends, on both sides of this case, but we'd rather not be caught between two parties with diametrically opposed visions of what our congressional map should look like. But this has become life as usual for the States under this Court's voting cases.

And our fundamental question today is, how do we get out of this predicament?

Now, I think there are at least three ways to do that.

First, you should reverse on standing grounds because the only theory of harm in the red brief is that our black representative of District 6 will play into racial stereotypes by favoring the black voters of District 6.

Second, you should reverse on racial predominance because the District Court wrongly assumed

that our intentional creation of a majority black district, in light of the Robinson decisions,

automatically established racial predominance.

And third, you should reverse on the good reasons inquiry because the district court,

wrongly, in our view, believed that the Robinson decisions play no role in the strong basis

in evidence inquiry. And in the end, I want to emphasize that the larger picture here is

important because in an election year, we faced the prospect of a federal court drawn map that placed in jeopardy, the Speaker of the House, the House Majority Leader, and our representative on the Appropriations Committee.

And so in light of those facts, we made the politically rational decision.

We drew our own map to protect them.

This Court's breathing room precedents allow that decision. I welcome the Court's questions.

So as I understand your argument, we are to accept that the Courts, the Robinson Court,

required that there be two districts and that your only interest is in preserving two incumbents in north-east Louisiana.

That's correct, Your Honor.

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