The U.S. Supreme Court is due to rule on Friday in a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Today, the Louisiana Legislature passed a map that creates a second majority-Black congressional district after being granted a final opportunity to pass a map before a federal ...

Two candidates in the Louisiana State Representative District 11 race were disqualified ahead of the October primary elections.

Last year, a group of Black voters and advocacy organizations won their lawsuit in the Middle District of Louisiana challenging district lines for the Louisiana State Senate and House of ...

Louisiana state lawmakers approved a new congressional map on Friday, drawing a second majority-Black district to comply with a court order.

Incumbent Mark Abraham has won reelection. Abraham was first elected as State Senator for the 25th Senatorial District in the Oct. 12, 2019 election. Incumbent Rodney Schamerhorn has won reelection.

Those new maps prompted civil rights groups to file lawsuits in the Middle District of Louisiana that argued the state needed more majority-Black districts.

In January, Louisiana lawmakers approved a new congressional map in an effort to increase the number of majority-Black districts to represent the state's population which is nearly one-third Black.

Democrat Jasmine Green is running for La. State Representative Dist. 4. Green is currently a board representative at Caddo Parish School Board representing District 2. She assumed office in 2010.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Friday to rule in a dispute involving a Louisiana electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in the state, with the justices ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to uphold Louisiana's congressional map, which features two majority-Black districts.

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Monday in a years-old, messy legal battle over Louisiana’s congressional districts that could have nationwide implications ...