Maps based on the 2020 census designating districts within Texas for state and congressional offices are the focus of a discrimination case that is being heard in federal court. Credit: Ben Torres ...

If a court finds that to be true, it wouldn’t be the first time: in every decade since the Voting ... maps blind to race,” the state’s pre-trial brief says. “The redistricting lawmakers ...

Those that have been recaptured are now being held at the maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary ... Sheriff Susan Hutson to suspend her re-election campaign, according to a May 20 social ...

Lawmakers' revision of Mississippi's legislative redistricting proposal gained approval from a panel of three federal judges on May 7 after months of legal battles, triggering the state to host 15 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Several voting rights groups in Louisiana are suing over a new law that requires people to show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. The lawsuit ...

A group of voting rights organizations is challenging ... policing citizenship is not. This law takes Louisiana in the wrong direction, and we look forward to challenging it in court.” ...

and it could inform future courts about how to interpret the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibits race-based discrimination. At issue is the way lawmakers responded to a district court’s order ...

An incoming heat wave is expected to put an end to those mild spring temperatures you were probably really enjoying this week, instead bringing summer-like heat to south Louisiana. National ...

It smelled like rotten eggs or bleach. It sometimes came out of the tap brown and murky. In the small town of Monterey along Louisiana’s ... Womack did not respond to multiple messages seeking ...

A federal court found Alabama’s voting map illegally discriminated against Black voters. The state ordered a new version with. 'A sliding doors moment': Donald Trump appears backed into a corner ...

The records, from the service L2 Data, showed that he voted in the 2024 election but that he had not voted in the two most recent elections in 2020 and 2016. He did vote, however, in the 2000 ...