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 packed ...

Judges for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Louisiana's request to allow it to enforce its long-stalled congressional redistricting map, delivering a near-term blow to Republicans in the ...

A view of the Mississippi River and downtown Baton Rouge from the Louisiana State Capitol’s observation deck on Nov. 12, 2021. Louisiana lawmakers on a Senate committee advanced a new state Supreme ...

Jan. 19 (UPI) --To comply with a previous court ruling, Louisiana lawmakers approved a new congressional map Friday that increases the total number of majority-Black districts. While Louisiana's ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with whether to leave in place Louisiana's congressional map that was used in the 2024 elections and includes two majority-Black districts. The ...

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 handed ...

Louisiana's Supreme Court case could limit states' ability to consider race when drawing congressional map boundaries.

A federal appeals court refused Friday to rehear a case giving Louisiana until Jan. 15 to enact a new congressional map. A lower court ruled that the state's current map unfairly dilutes the power of ...

Civil rights groups urged the US Supreme Court to step into Louisiana’s fraught and potentially far-reaching redistricting battle on Wednesday, asking the justices to rule against some White voters ...

WASHINGTON – Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry asked the panel of three federal judges trying to settle on maps for this fall’s congressional elections to make up their minds by the middle of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The U.S. Supreme Court decided to delay its ruling on Louisiana’s congressional map and will rehear the case later. Justice Clarence Thomas disagreed, saying the ...

The day National Urban League President Marc Morial slammed a federal court decision as an “intellectually bankrupt” erosion of the Voting Rights Act, the state of Louisiana used that same decision to ...