The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Monday with a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in the ...

In January 2024, the state legislature approved a new map that included two Black-majority districts. Later that month, 12 Louisiana voters identifying themselves as "non-African American" filed a ...

A redistricting battle over Louisiana's congressional map has spanned years and been before the Supreme Court twice already.

the state legislature passed a new map in 2024 that added a second majority-Black voting district, marking a victory for the NAACP Louisiana State Conference, Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, ...

In 2022, the Louisiana legislature adopted a congressional map that included only one majority-Black district among the six allotted to the state, though a third of the state’s population is Black. Th ...

It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisiana’s latest redistricting plan. The state and a group of Black voters ask the justices to ...

A lawyer for Louisiana told the justices that the state was a reluctant ... their snake-shaped district — a sign, Mr. Naifeh said, that the Legislature had created the map because of politics.

The Supreme Court heard the case of Louisiana ... Circuit ordered the map redrawn to create two majority-black districts to reflect the fact that about one-third of the state’s population ...

Fields added that other Louisiana congressional districts are more spread ... which required the state’s legislature to redraw its congressional map to include a second Black-majority district ...

US Supreme Court Wrestles With Louisiana Electoral Map With More Black-Majority Districts By John Kruzel ... drawn by its Republican-controlled state legislature with race as the primary ...