The US Supreme Court removed a stay Monday in Ardoin v. Robinson, unblocking a lower court order requiring Louisiana to redraw its congressional map to include a second majority-Black district. Louisiana had been accused of allegedly “packing” the majority of the state’s Black voters into one congressional district.

The removal was included in Monday’s order list, which stated: “The stay heretofore entered by the Court on June 28, 2022, is vacated. This will allow the matter to proceed before the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for review in the ordinary course and in advance of the 2024 congressional elections in Louisiana.”

Mike McClanahan, president of the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP, celebrated the removal, saying:

The Supreme Court’s ruling upholding Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was welcome news for Black voters in Louisiana who, for decades, have been in a single district that has diluted the power of their vote and the ability to elect candidates of our choice. As in Alabama, the people of Louisiana have the law on their side and the facts on their side. But the fight doesn’t end here — it’s time for a new map with two majority-Black districts that will finally honor Black voters’ right to fair representation.

Robinson had previously been stayed while the Supreme Court deliberated in a similar case regarding Alabama, Allen v. Milligan. The Supreme Court released its ruling in Milligan on June 8, requiring Alabama to redraw its congressional district maps due to racial gerrymandering.

The removal of the stay will allow a US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruling to go forward. The Appeals Court ruled that a US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana ruling, which required the redrawing of the Louisiana congressional district map to include the addition of a second majority-Black district, should not be stayed.