“We are pleased and encouraged that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted 11-6 today to stay the District Court’s order imposing Map 1 on Galveston County,” County Judge Mark Henry said ...

(CN) — Louisiana officials asked the Fifth Circuit Tuesday to overturn a lower court finding that the state's congressional map illegally dilutes the Black vote and must be redrawn. In 2022, the ...

Here the Fifth Circuit told the trial court that it was moving too fast by scheduling a hearing to consider potential alternative maps. Indeed, three weeks ago, a Fifth Circuit panel, by a 2-to-1 ...

The Fifth Circuit oversees courts in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and judges there now have one less reason to strike down democratically passed district maps, including for Congress after ...

So, while the Fifth Circuit’s latest decision in Robinson is good news for Louisiana’s Black voters, and for Democrats who will likely gain a House seat once the maps are redrawn, there is ...

(CN) — An en banc Fifth Circuit examined Galveston County's redistricting maps Tuesday, in a case where Black and Latino voters claim the maps are racially gerrymandered. The full bench of the New ...

Reversing decades of precedent, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in a Texas case that different minority groups cannot jointly claim that their votes have been diluted.