In January 2024, the state legislature approved a new map that included two Black-majority districts. Later that month, 12 Louisiana voters identifying ... on race when creating a second ...

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Monday with 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 ...

A redistricting battle over Louisiana's congressional map has spanned years and been before the Supreme Court twice already.

the Louisiana Legislature decided to draw a new map and was careful to protect the district boundaries of high-profile incumbent Republicans in Congress, including House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisiana’s latest redistricting plan. The state and a group of Black voters ask the justices to ...

Louisiana's congressional map has twice been challenged in federal ... after they claimed issue with a new district that stretched some 250 miles from Louisiana's northwest corner of Shreveport ...

Louisiana’s current map was adopted after a federal court ... But after lawmakers added a second majority-black district, a new group of plaintiffs sued, calling the revised lines an “odious ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Monday over a challenge to Louisiana's congressional map, which added a second Black majority district. Several of the court's ...

(CNN) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Monday in a years-old, messy legal battle over Louisiana ... to redraw its map to allow for an additional Black majority district.

NEW ORLEANS — Ever since Louisiana ... At the center of the debate is Louisiana's congressional district map, which now includes a sixth district stretching from Shreveport, roughly 250 miles ...

In January 2024, the state legislature approved a new map that included two Black-majority districts. Later that month, 12 Louisiana voters ... a second majority-Black district in the ...