The Supreme Court ordered Louisiana to use its current map for the election ... the upcoming Supreme Court hearing will be at ...

Credit: AP/Gerald Herbert In January state lawmakers passed Louisiana’s new congressional map with a second majority-Black district, marking a win for Democrats and civil rights groups after a ...

Louisiana has had two congressional maps blocked by lower courts and the Supreme Court has intervened twice. The state’s Republican-dominated legislature drew a new congressional map in 2022 to ...

The Louisiana legislature then redrew its congressional map in January, creating two majority-Black districts, including one that stretched across the state from Shreveport to Baton Rouge.

The fight over how to draw the state’s six congressional districts has involved multiple stops in lower courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. Louisiana legislators originally drew a map that ...

As held recently by multiple courts, the Voting Rights Act requires Louisiana to have a congressional map with two Black opportunity districts." "The lower court’s decision to block Louisiana ...

Democrat Cleo Fields will serve Louisiana's new majority Black 6th Congressional District after securing 51% of the vote on Tuesday night. Fields avoided a runoff between Republican Elbert ...

But the district’s boundaries have recently been recrafted. In January state lawmakers passed Louisiana’s new congressional map with a second majority-Black district, marking a win for ...