Although a third of Louisianians are Black, less than a third of state legislative districts have majority Black populations.

The Louisiana state legislature on Friday approved a new congressional map that includes two majority-Black districts after being ordered to do so by a federal court that found that the existing ...

The Republican-controlled Louisiana state Legislature passed a new congressional map Friday that creates a second Black-majority district in the state. The state House voted 86-16 and the state ...

A federal appeals court said the Louisiana Legislature should have until January 15 to revise its congressional district map before a constitutional challenge to the plan moves forward.

Louisiana lawmakers have so far filed seven ... Although it splits fewer parishes than the Republican-backed maps, Senate Bill 1 notably cleaves the city of Slidell. That’s the home of Senate ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Today, the Louisiana Legislature passed a map that creates a second majority-Black congressional district after being granted a final opportunity to pass a map before a federal ...

Earlier this year, the Louisiana legislature redrew the state's congressional map to add a second Black-majority district after a court ruled that the old map violated the Voting Rights Act by not ...

After the House took a day off, the Louisiana Senate had advanced a potentially-compliant map to the chamber floor that gave Black voters slight majorities in two of the six districts and had three ...

The Republican-controlled Louisiana legislature approved the map in January after U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick in 2022 ruled that a map it previously had adopted containing only a single Black ...

NEW ORLEANS – Oral argument concluded today at the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case that will determine the future of Louisiana’s state legislative maps, Nairne v. Landry. Last year, a ...

In 2022, the Louisiana Legislature drew a new congressional map that included only one majority Black district. A group of Black Louisiana voters and civil rights organizations sued, arguing the map ...