Lake Charles attorney Cade R. Cole has become the 119th associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. A packed Courtroom ...

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Monday with a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral ...

The Supreme Court grappled Monday with a years-old, messy legal battle over Louisiana’s congressional districts during an oral argument in which several of the court’s conservatives questioned ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether Louisiana lawmakers can use race as a factor when drawing congressional maps, a closely watched case that could impact voters nationwide in the ...

Civil rights group fear the court could rule in a way that could undermine voting protections. Lawyers for Louisiana, who are defending the map, say the Supreme Court needs to either be clear ...

AND WHAT COMES OUT OF IT. A Louisiana man set for execution Tuesday has asked the United States Supreme Court to stop it before he dies by nitrous hypoxia. According to a new court filing ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which ...

The state of Louisiana carried out its first execution using nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. The vote was 5-4 with Justice Neil M. Gorsuch joining ...

Louisiana officials have suggested that the Supreme Court might want to use the case to take federal courts out of the business of deciding racial gerrymanders altogether, just as it withdrew from ...

The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Louisiana to carry out its first planned execution of a condemned inmate by nitrogen gas on Tuesday, a method his lawyers warned would inflict "psychological torture." ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which has two Black majority districts for the first time. Several of the court ...

After the Louisiana Supreme Court on Tuesday ended a lawsuit challenging the validity of one of four proposed constitutional amendments on the March 29 ballot, it is now up to voters whether to ...