A U.S. District judge will soon decide whether Louisiana must add more majority-Black districts to its state legislative map, after civil rights groups argued for that move on Monday.. Inside a ...

The Republican-controlled Louisiana state Legislature passed a new congressional map Friday that creates a second Black-majority district in the state. The state House voted 86-16 and the state ...

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 ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic ...

“Thanks to the Supreme Court's order from May 2024, which put the district court’s injunction on hold, the fair and legal map the Louisiana legislature enacted in response to our litigation remains in ...

Photo caption: Louisiana Senators talk during a recess of floor debate on a redistricting map (pictured in background) on Feb. 18, 2022. The map fails to include a second Black district. Photo ...

A federal appeals court says the Louisiana legislature should get one last chance to revise its congressional district map before a constitutional challenge to the current plan moves forward. A ...

Louisiana defends legislative maps with court decision civil rights groups oppose National Urban League president Marc Morial calls ruling 'intellectually bankrupt' ...

A federal court judge has ruled that Louisiana’s state legislative maps must be redrawn because they violate the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black votes. U.S. District Chief Judge Shelly Dick ...

At issue is the Louisiana legislature's creation of a Black-majority congressional district, which a group of voters claimed ...

The Republican-controlled Louisiana legislature approved the map in January after U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick in 2022 ruled that a map it previously had adopted containing only a single Black ...

A U.S. District judge will soon decide whether Louisiana must add more majority-Black districts to its state legislative map, after civil rights groups argued for that move on Monday. Inside a ...