The U.S. Supreme Court will determine whether the new map will be officially implemented. The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to uphold Louisiana’s congressional map, which was used in ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with whether to leave in place Louisiana's congressional map that was used in the 2024 elections and includes two majority-Black districts.

At the center of the debate is Louisiana's congressional district map, which now includes a sixth district stretching from Shreveport, roughly 250 miles southeast, to Baton Rouge.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The U.S. Supreme Court took up the legality of Louisiana’s new congressional map on Monday (March 24), and whatever the high court decides will have far-reaching implications.

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 ...

The Supreme Court questions Louisiana's second majority-Black congressional district, raising concerns about racial gerrymandering and its impact on the state's map.

Louisiana's congressional map has twice been challenged in federal court since it was updated in the wake of the 2020 census, which found that the state's Black residents now totaled one-third of ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with whether or not to send Louisiana legislators back to the drawing board in a high-stakes dispute over the Voting Rights Act and an election map with two ...

Louisiana argued on Monday that the map was not impermissibly drawn by its Republican-controlled state legislature with race as the primary motivation, as the lower court found last year.

“Louisiana would rather not be here,” the state’s solicitor general, J. Benjamin Aguiñaga, told the justices. Mr. Aguiñaga was adamant that politics, not race, led to the current map.

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