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The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Monday with a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral ...
A redistricting battle over Louisiana's congressional map has spanned years and been before the Supreme Court twice already.
Several conservative justices were skeptical that the Voting Rights Act’s attempts to redress past discrimination can co-exist with the Equal Protection Clause.
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 ...
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 ...
The Supreme Court’s conservative justices aired concerns Monday about race in redistricting, in a case about Louisiana'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.
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday over a challenge to Louisiana's recently redrawn voting map and its two Black-majority districts. Plaintiffs claimed that the map violates Section 2 ...
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday over the fate of Louisiana’s second Black-majority congressional district.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is halfway to the next once-a-decade census, but the Supreme Court is still dealing with lawsuits that grew out of the last one.
In 2022, the Louisiana legislature adopted a congressional map that included only one majority-Black district among the six allotted to the state, though a third of the state’s population is Black. Th ...
The state’s previous congressional district map was struck down for diluting the votes of Black voters. Now, some Louisiana voters claim the new map is unlawful for considering race. If “I’m ...