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Although a third of Louisianians are Black, less than a third of state legislative districts have majority Black populations.
It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisiana’s latest redistricting plan ... diametrically opposed views” of what the new map should look ...
Louisiana state Sen. Cleo Fields (D), who served in Congress in the 1990s, has declared his candidacy for a new majority-Black ... about what the map should look like and whose rights are more ...
Toggle between the two maps to see how redistricting ... a closer look at how each one has redrawn their map: Republicans continue to benefit from a clear advantage in drawing new district lines.
Redistricting doesn’t work like that ... about Louisiana: It doesn’t hold a traditional primary, so unlike every other state, it doesn’t need to use a new congressional map before the ...
The winding fight over Louisiana's congressional redistricting plan began in 2022, when Republican state lawmakers adopted a map consisting ... the new voting lines. "Cases like this illustrate ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michael Li, senior counsel for the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, about redistricting and the impact of new ... drew maps and where, on paper, it looks like ...
In Alabama and Louisiana, the new maps make it likely that Black voters and Democrats will win one additional seat in each state. But in Georgia, despite redistricting that boosted the number of ...
Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga argued that the state's latest map protected political stability, including preserving leadership positions like ... 2024 a new state redistricting ...
Disputes over district lines are playing out in Georgia, New York and ... is Black -- if Louisiana's Republican-led Legislature is ordered to redraw the map. Much like in Alabama, a second mostly ...
“If you look ... redistricting case. The Biden-era Justice Department had planned to participate to argue that the lower court committed significant legal errors in striking down Louisiana’s ...
Many in Louisiana cheered because it seemed to bode well for our similar redistricting battle ... ample time to come up with new maps. These developments may seem like legal minutia to some ...