The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to uphold Louisiana's congressional map, which was used in the 2024 elections and features two majority-Black districts. Reuters reports that the court heard ...

The justices on Monday are taking up a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which was drawn so that, for the first time, two of its six districts have majority Black populations that elected ...

Using the new map to hold elections in 2024 ... adopted a map that included only one majority-Black district despite the shift, the Louisiana State Conference of the N.A.A.C.P., the Power ...

A redistricting battle over Louisiana's congressional map has spanned years and been before the Supreme Court twice already.

Louisiana's congressional map has twice been challenged in federal ... The first redistricting map, which included just one district where Black voters held the majority, was invalidated by ...

Monday's arguments centered on Louisiana's response to U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick's 2022 finding that an earlier map likely violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark law barring ...

Fields added that other Louisiana congressional districts ... politics predominated. The new maps protected White majorities in the districts of three Republicans, House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

In the lower courts, seven judges from across the ideological spectrum concluded that Louisiana’s map needed to include two majority-Black districts to remedy a prior violation of the Voting ...

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday over the fate of Louisiana’s second Black-majority congressional district.

It has been a winding road. The court fight over Louisiana's congressional districts has lasted three years. Two maps were blocked by lower courts, and the Supreme Court has intervened twice.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which added a second Black majority district. Several of the court's ...