The case, which will not affect this election cycle, involves a legal fight over how the state draws its voting maps and ...
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal over Louisiana’s more Democratic-friendly congressional districts, ...
Graves' District 6 was reconfigured to create the second majority-minority district. It now stretches from Shreveport, in ...
The case involves two majority-Black districts and will impact how states craft minority voting districts to comply with the ...
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it would hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s congressional ...
Noting the size of the state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal ...
At issue now is Louisiana’s new map, which the Legislature passed in January to avoid a court taking over the drawing of the lines. It includes a second majority-Black district. The new map came ...
Those challenging the current map say it focuses too heavily on race and forced the state to draw a second majority-Black district that snakes across Louisiana, cutting from Baton Rouge in the ...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral ...
The current map, which was drawn after court ... the Constitution when they are attempting to draw lines that comply with the Voting Rights Act. Louisiana told the Supreme Court it was caught ...
The Supreme Court announced Monday it will decide whether Louisiana’s latest congressional map is unconstitutional.