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 Republican-controlled Louisiana state Legislature passed a new congressional map Friday that creates a second Black-majority district in the state. The state House voted 86-16 and the state ...

A U.S. District judge will soon decide whether Louisiana must add more majority-Black districts to its state legislative map, after civil rights groups argued for that move on Monday. Inside a ...

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 state’s Black ...

With the stay in place, Louisiana voters will be able to cast their ballots this November under the map with two majority-Black districts passed by the state Legislature in January of this year (SB 8) ...

signed a bill Monday approving new Congressional maps that will create a second majority-Black district. The Louisiana state legislature approved the updated Congressional maps last week which ...

In 2022, Louisiana lawmakers passed a map with one majority-Black district out of six, even though Black residents make up about a third of the state's population. A group of Black voters ...

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. In ...

which found the redistricting plan approved by Louisiana's GOP-led legislature in January was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. That map, which set the lines for the state's six ...

The Louisiana state legislature on Friday approved a new congressional map that includes two majority-Black districts after being ordered to do so by a federal court that found that the existing ...