However, approving a map without two majority-Black districts would likely violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, civil rights groups have warned, and could lead to “costly and unnecessary ...

Yet Louisiana's boot-shaped outline remains unchanged on maps. I got the notion that there might be a discrepancy between Louisiana's map and its reality from my friend and colleague Jeff Duncan, ...

The Supreme Court on Friday delayed a decision on the constitutionality of Louisiana’s congressional districts until its next term.

The federal court that struck down Louisiana’s congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander is giving state lawmakers until the beginning of June to redraw the map themselves.

Louisiana state lawmakers approved a new congressional map on Friday, drawing a second majority-Black district to comply with a court order. A federal court had ruled in 2022 that Louisiana’s ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Friday to rule in a dispute involving a Louisiana electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in the state, with the justices ...

Louisiana officials react after the U.S. Supreme Court delayed its ruling on Louisiana's congressional map and will rehear the case, with Justice Clarence Thomas warning that race-based districts ...

Louisiana's Republican Legislature passed a new map in February 2022 that kept five of the state's six congressional districts with white majorities, then overrode Gov. John Bel Edwards' veto of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court is due to rule on Friday in a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana Legislature has until Jan. 15 to enact a new congressional map after a lower court last year ruled that the current political boundaries dilute the power of the ...

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 ...

Louisiana lawmakers on Friday approved a new congressional map that gives the state a second Black-majority US House district and likely puts at risk a Republican-controlled seat.