Opponents of Louisiana’s Republican-drawn political maps are optimistic the state could ... which ordered that state to create another district with a large Black population, upheld decades ...

The justices granted a request by Louisiana's Republican ... lawsuit that the Republican-drawn map maximizes "political power for white citizens" by packing large numbers of Black voters into ...

The Black voters who initially sued the state over its 5-1 map secured a ruling in their favor in June 2022. US District Judge Shelly Dick – a Barack Obama appointee who is the chief judge of ...

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The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed with a delay on proceedings that could lead to creating a second congressional district in Louisiana where Black voters make up a large-enough share of the ...

The Louisiana dispute is one of ... at drafting a new map for Louisiana. That map was to include two districts in which Black voters represent a large enough share of the population to have ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request to speed up the redrawing of Louisiana's map of congressional districts, after a federal judge found that map likely dilutes the voting strength of ...