WASHINGTON – The Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus and some White Democratic legislators have asked a judge to stop Attorney General Liz Murrill's office from arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn the state's Congressional map with two majority-Black districts.

Murrill’s argument would effectively repeal a law passed by the Louisiana Legislature, a duty the state Constitution gives legislators and forbids an attorney general from doing on her own, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday in Baton Rouge’s 19th Judicial District Court. They allege that Murrill is joining the national Republican effort to pad the GOP majority in the U.S. House.

The case was assigned to Judge Tiffany Foxworth-Roberts.

“It’s a separation of powers question,” Democratic Rep. Edmond Jordan, a

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