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The case before the Supreme Court involves a state voting law that pits minority voter protections against the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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 ...
Black people comprise nearly a third of Louisiana's population and generally support ... Republican-controlled legislature did not draw the map with race as the primary factor.
It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisiana’s latest ...
Louisiana’s current map was adopted after a federal court ... is warranted in part because at least a third of the state’s population is black, and therefore the state’s black residents ...
At issue in the Louisiana case is a majority Black ... dominated legislature drew a new congressional map in 2022 to account for population shifts reflected in the 2020 Census.
A redistricting battle over Louisiana's congressional map has spanned years and been before the Supreme Court twice already.
NEW ORLEANS — Ever since Louisiana was ordered to create a second congressional district that accurately represents our state's Black voter population ... district map, which now includes ...
Black people comprise nearly a third of Louisiana’s population and generally support ... controlled legislature did not draw the map with race as the primary factor. The state said the map ...