The state’s opponents countered that the district court in the Louisiana case had decided that the 5-1 map likely violated the Voting Rights Act under the same exact legal test the Supreme Court ...

(BRPROUD) — Democrat Cleo Fields won the seat for Louisiana ... map with a second majority-Black district in the fall election. All five candidates for the seat were Black men. In District 5 ...

5 things to know about the tussle over a second majority Black district in Louisiana “Louisiana can and should have a congressional map that represents our voting population, which is one-third ...

Opponents of Louisiana’s Republican-drawn political maps are optimistic ... add a majority-Black district. Fields had proposed creating a second majority-Black District 5, the seat currently ...

Louisiana originally proposed a voting map with only one ... in 2023 and ended with a 5-4 ruling that upheld the creation of a second Black-majority congressional district. The ruling surprised ...

The race in question is for the District 2 seat on the Louisiana Public Service Commission ... His best chance of winning is not on Nov. 5 but by forcing a runoff and sharing a ballot with ...

A federal three-judge panel has thrown out Louisiana's new congressional map that created a second Black district, leaving the state's political ... has said she needs clarity by May 15 to conduct the ...

A surprise U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday overthrowing Alabama's congressional map because ... require Louisiana to add a second majority black district. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor ...

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 ...