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 ...

The Western District Court struck down Louisiana’s map over a year ago. Our citizens deserve certainty, not more delays. The Supreme Court should do its job so the legislature can do ours.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Louisiana officials react after the U.S. Supreme Court delayed its ruling on Louisiana’s congressional map and will rehear the case, with Justice Clarence Thomas warning that race-based distr… ...