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 ...

The Supreme Court will not decide right now whether Louisiana violated the Constitution when it enacted a congressional map ...

Lawyers for the Louisiana state conference of the NAACP dismissed the notion that it was too close to the election to change the maps. In court papers they echoed Dick’s holding that “a ...

Louisiana argued that it was caught in an impossible position: At first, a federal court ruled that the state had likely violated the Voting Rights Act by drawing only one majority Black district out ...

Louisiana state lawmakers approved a new congressional map on Friday, drawing a second majority-Black district to comply with a court order. A federal court had ruled in 2022 that Louisiana’s ...

Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana, a Democrat, had vetoed the Legislature’s House map in March, saying it was “simply not fair to the people of Louisiana and does not meet the standards set ...

Republican officials in Louisiana are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to set a narrower definition of "Black" for redistricting that excludes some Black people and could minimize their voting power.

Louisiana's new congressional map is a win for Black voters and likely brings an end to the state's long-running legal battle over redistricting. It could also see Democrats gain a seat in Congress.

Louisiana’s redistricting litigation was paused while the Supreme Court considered the Alabama case, and because of the delay, Louisiana was required in 2022 to use a voting map that a judge had ...

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 ...

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 ...

Louisiana state officials were sued last year for a congressional map – passed by the Republican legislature over Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto – that made only one of its six ...