The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the rehearing of arguments regarding Louisiana's new sixth congressional district map, while also signing into law bills that will affect the state's most vulnerable ...

Louisiana argued that it was caught in an impossible position: At first, a federal court ruled that the state had likely violated the Voting Rights Act by drawing only one majority Black district out ...

The case, known as Louisiana v. Callais, has ping-ponged around the federal courts, including twice at the Supreme Court, since 2022, when a federal district court in Baton Rouge issued the first ...

Its first map after the 2020 census was invalidated by federal courts because the state included only a single majority-Black district, even though Black residents make up roughly one-third of ...

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 ...

The first redistricting map, which included just one district where Black voters held the majority, was invalidated by a federal court (and subsequently, by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Louisiana’s current map was adopted after a federal court ruled its original post-2020 census map, with just one black-majority district out of six, violated federal law.

Louisiana is ‘tired’ of fighting over its congressional maps. ... Louisiana was, at first, required by a federal court in 2022 to create a second majority Black district out of the state’s ...

After the 2020 census, Louisiana needed to draw a new map for its six congressional districts. Although roughly a third of the state’s population is Black, the map that the legislature enacted in 2022 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, voting rights advocates argued before the Supreme Court in Louisiana v.Callais that a congressional map that was in place during the 2024 election cycle should remain because ...

The latest case before the court involves Louisiana's congressional map, which was redrawn last year to add a second majority-Black district to comply with Section 2, but then was found to be a ...

Its first map after the 2020 census was invalidated by federal courts because the state included only a single majority-Black district, even though Black residents make up roughly one-third of ...