The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal over Louisiana ... six congressional districts has been playing out for years, with repeated stops at the Supreme Court. The current map ...

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.

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black ...

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 Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up the fight over Louisiana’s congressional map, which has erupted into a messy legal battle over how to fix a racially gerrymandered design.

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 ...