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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Louisiana lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday, they'll focus on a range of issues, from restructuring DOTD to ...

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 ...

U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick ruled that a map adopted earlier that year by the Republican-controlled Louisiana legislature containing only a single Black-majority congressional district in the ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices aired concerns Monday about race in redistricting, in a case about Louisiana's congressional map.

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 ...