The third day of the Louisiana Congressional district map hearing, Callais et al. v Landry, began with final witnesses before closing arguments were presented.

Lawyers for Attorney General Jeff Landry and other Republican leaders have successfully delayed the timeframe for creating a new second majority-Black congressional district, after an appeals ...

U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, speaks at a news conference on May 31, 2023. A state legislative proposal to redraw Louisiana's congressional districts put Graves' seat at risk.

Hearing of lawsuit over La.’s congressional map ends with no immediate ruling “If it is determined to be predominately based upon race, it will likely be struck down,” attorney says The trial of a ...

The Supreme Court denied two emergency requests to restart the redrawing of Louisiana’s congressional map, a process that was likely to add a second majority-Black district. A map passed by ...

"Louisiana is the only state that doesn't have a congressional map," he said. "This is an emergency." But Paul Hurd, an attorney with the plaintiffs who will likely have their own map to submit ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS)—The recently passed Louisiana Congressional district map is being debated in federal court after opponents filed a lawsuit calling it unconstitutional. Plaintiffs ...

That left Louisiana without a congressional map and the state's U.S. House members and their voters in the dark on representation. Monday's status conference wasn't conducted in open court.

A federal court on Tuesday blocked Louisiana from using a congressional map signed into law this year that had been redrawn to include a second majority-Black district.. In a 2-1 vote, the three ...

WASHINGTON —Last Friday, plaintiffs in Robinson v.Ardoin, the challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, filed an emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court ...