A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus seeking to compel Attorney General Liz Murrill to defend the constitutionality of the state’s current congressional map, which has two majority-Black districts.

The Black Caucus last month asked the 19th Judicial District Court to either require Murrill to defend as constitutional the state law that created the current congressional map or to take no position when her solicitor general, Ben Aguiñaga , goes before the U.S. Supreme Court next week for oral arguments.

Murrill argued that the legislators had neither a legal basis nor standing to sue under the law they had cited, a stance the judge agreed with.

“This was the proper result,” Murrill said in a statement about Judge Eboni Rose-Johnson’s ruling.

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