Nearly two years after a federal judge said that Louisiana’s congressional map diluted Black voting power ... shape and how it divided cities and parishes “along racial lines.” ...

Lawmakers from Northwest Louisiana, Jefferson Parish, Baton Rouge and the Bayou Region ... 70% white and 20% Black and the 6th District 69% white and 16% Black. Johnson noted his version of the map ...

A panel of federal judges has tossed out Louisiana ... power of Black Louisianians. The Supreme Court, however, allowed that map to be used for the 2022 midterms, and it saw five white Republicans ...

The Louisiana NAACP, the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, and many black voters filed two lawsuits in March 2022 that were consolidated into Robinson. They claimed the state was “packing ...