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 ...

A major case in Alabama could affect Louisiana's congressional district maps. The 2020 Census showed 1/3 of Louisiana's population is black, so some argue there should be 2 "majority black" districts.

A panel of federal judges rejected Louisiana's new congressional map, which made two of the state's six districts majority-Black. This state's map from 2022 was also federally blocked.

A federal appeals court on Friday agreed with a lower-court ruling that Louisiana’s latest congressional map very likely violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the power of Black voters, and ...

Although Louisiana overall has seen a small population growth rate of 2.7%, the 2020 census results show that northern parishes have experienced significant population loss while suburban areas in ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court granted an emergency stay today in Robinson v.Callais, pausing enforcement of a district court’s decision to strike down Louisiana’s congressional map as a racial ...

The federal court that struck down Louisiana’s congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander is giving state lawmakers until the beginning of June to redraw the map themselves.

Under the current congressional district maps, Black Louisianans are severely underrepresented. Louisiana’s voting-age population is nearly one-third Black; however, Black voters in Louisiana only ...

This comes after the Louisiana Legislature failed to draw a new congressional map with a second majority-minority district during a special session last week.

With bipartisan support, a proposed Louisiana congressional map that would create a second majority-Black district sailed through the state Senate on Wednesday and will advance to the House ...