Louisiana's congressmen have coalesced behind their preference for a new map of the state's six congressional boundaries, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson said, and it looks strikingly familiar ...

Rep. Cox’s district is disappearing under a map proposed by Speaker Clay Schexnayder. HB14 places District 23 in New Orleans due to the population loss in his area and it ... “In Louisiana, ...

At each of these roadshows representatives from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and progressive groups like Louisiana Progress came to advocate for two majority-minority districts.

“Racially polarized voting substantially impedes the ability of Black voters to elect candidates of their choice to the Louisiana state legislature in these areas unless districts are drawn to provide ...

Louisiana's redistricting plan first began in 2021, with legislature originally drawing a map with a single-majority Black district, despite the fact that one third of Louisiana's population is Black.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated a Republican-drawn map of Louisiana's six U.S. House of Representatives districts that had been blocked by a judge who found that it likely discriminates ...

To promote art in schools, every year, each of the 435 members of the House chooses from submissions from their constituents to decorate the busy tunnel that connects ...

The author of the proposals, Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Edmond Jordan, D-Baton Rouge, argued the maps are necessary because a federal judge has ruled the current state ...

New state House and Senate boundary lines drawn up by the Louisiana Legislature in 2022 dilute Black voting strength in violation of the U.S. Voting Rights Act, a federal judge in Baton Rouge ruled… ...

“Thanks to the Supreme Court's order from May 2024, which put the district court’s injunction on hold, the fair and legal map the Louisiana legislature enacted in response to our litigation remains in ...

A federal court said in 2022 that the power of Black voters was diluted under a map the Louisiana legislature created with only one mostly Black district − despite the fact that Black people ...