Landry has said he supports the map. The new map increases the Black makeup of Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District from 23 percent to 54 percent. The seat is held by Rep. Garret Graves ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana has a new congressional map, with a second majority-Black district, after Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed it into law on Monday. The new map is a win for Black ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will allow Louisiana ... to come up with a new map that included an additional majority-minority congressional district.

Twelve “non-African American” voters are named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Western District of Louisiana, based in Shreveport. It argues the new map is ...

A panel of three federal judges struck down Louisiana's new congressional lines ... redrew the state's congressional map to add a second Black-majority district after a court ruled that the ...

A Louisiana legislative committee has killed two bills that would have added eight new majority Black districts to the state ...

It was unclear following arguments whether the high court was inclined to preserve Louisiana's map for use in future elections. New district lines are drawn after every Census. The justices have ...

The case began in 2022, when the Louisiana legislature redrew the state’s congressional districts map with one majority Black congressional district that covered New Orleans and part of Baton Rouge.

After the 2020 census, Louisiana needed to draw a new map for its six congressional districts. Although roughly a third of the state’s population is Black, the map that the legislature enacted in 2022 ...

Under the new map, 54 percent of the voting-age ... In June 2022, Baton Rouge-based U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick struck down Louisiana’s map for violating the Voting Rights Act.

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with whether to leave in place Louisiana's congressional map that was used in the 2024 elections and includes two majority-Black districts.

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 ...