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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to uphold Louisiana's congressional map, which was used in the 2024 elections and features two majority-Black districts. Reuters reports that the court heard ...

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

The saga over Louisiana's congressional map goes back to the 2020 census, which revealed an increase in the population of Black voters in the state. In its first attempt at redistricting following ...

The question before the court: Did Louisiana lawmakers improperly ... a sharp increase in the state’s Black population. When lawmakers adopted a map that included only one majority-Black ...

despite Blacks accounting for roughly a third of Louisiana’s population. The court ordered the state to redraw the map to include more Black-majority districts as a remedy. The state complied and ...

Louisiana’s Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga argued in support of the map that created a second ... that there is just not enough Black voter population in southeast Louisiana, and he ...

The declines in individual parishes come as statewide population estimates, released in December, show that Louisiana’s population overall increased by 10,000 people, rising to about 4.6 million.