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 ...

Although a third of Louisianians are Black, less than a third of state legislative districts have majority Black populations.

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 ...

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 ...

The three-judge panel issued a 2-1 decision Tuesday ruling Louisiana's congressional map creating a second Black majority district was unconstitutional because of “an impermissible racial ...

Callais, pausing enforcement of a district court’s decision to strike down Louisiana’s congressional map as a racial gerrymander. With the stay in place, Louisiana voters will be able to cast their ...

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.

The Supreme Court appeared split along partisan lines Monday over the creation of a second Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana, a case that could affect the balance of power in ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court on Monday weighed whether a Louisiana congressional map that includes two majority-black districts for the first time in decades is a lawful effort to comply with the Voting ...

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 ...