The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency ...

This election is one of fewer than ten of its kind in Louisiana history. Normally, these board seats are appointed, not ...

A Louisiana legislative committee has killed two bills that would have added eight new majority Black districts to the state ...

The 2024 election cycle was momentous for Black Louisianans — for the first time in nearly three decades, the state had two majority-Black districts.Though they make up a third of the state’s ...

The state said the map was also designed to protect Republican incumbents who represent Louisiana districts ... and our representative on the Appropriations Committee,” Benjamin Aguinaga ...

NEW ORLEANS — Ever since Louisiana ... district stretching from Shreveport, roughly 250 miles southeast, to Baton Rouge. The map was adopted after years of litigation and the approval of the ...

State officials and advocacy groups have appealed a lower court's ruling that found the map laying out Louisiana's six U.S. House of Representatives districts - with two Black-majority districts ...

which found that the state's Black residents now totaled one-third of Louisiana's total population. The first redistricting map, which included just one district where Black voters held the ...

And with Republicans holding only a slim majority in the House of Representatives ... He told Naifeh that they had been offered a map with a compact district, but “Louisiana chose a snake.” The state ...

(CNN) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a years-old, messy legal battle over Louisiana’s congressional districts ... of Representatives after the 2026 election. The state ...

The justices heard arguments in an appeal by state officials and ... ruling that found that the map delineating Louisiana's six U.S. House of Representatives districts - with two Black-majority ...