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.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday 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 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 ...

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 ...

Black people comprise nearly a third of Louisiana's population. The Supreme Court restored the map for use in the 2024 election. Democratic former President Joe Biden's administration had largely ...

A legal battle over a Congressional map is now in the hands of the Supreme Court with Justices hearing oral arguments on whether race or politics led to political boundaries.

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 district that ... The state’s Republican-dominated legislature drew a new congressional map in 2022 to account for population shifts reflected in the ...

Although Black residents make up roughly a third of Louisiana’s population, the state had just one Black lawmaker ... leave Fields in power – or it could force a redrawing of the maps before the 2026 ...

States must balance complying with a civil rights law that protects the voting power of a racial minority while not discriminating against other voters.

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