Nearly two years after a federal judge said that Louisiana’s congressional map diluted Black voting power, Black voters are at risk of voting for a second time in an election under a plan that ...

Louisiana state lawmakers approved a new congressional map on Friday, drawing a second majority-Black district to comply with a court order. A federal court had ruled in 2022 that Louisiana’s ...

Louisiana's congressional map The first map adopted by Republican state lawmakers in 2022 consisted of five majority-White congressional districts and one majority-Black district, though roughly ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an ...

We will have a map with 2 majority black districts this fall,” Jared Evans, an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, wrote in a text using an abbreviation for the Supreme Court.

At issue is a map drawn by state lawmakers that included a second majority African American district in Louisiana’s six-district congressional plan. A conservative leaning lower court ruled ...

The earlier map maintained a single Black-majority district and five mostly white districts, in a state with a population that is about one-third Black. An appeal of Tuesday’s ruling to the U.S ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A proposed Louisiana congressional map with a second majority-Black district, which could deliver another U.S. House seat to Democrats, received bipartisan support and ...

Louisiana’s 2nd Black district restored High court orders state to use map for ’24 elections despite lower court ruling May 16, 2024 at 3:32 a.m. by MARK SHERMAN and KEVIN McGILL The ...

The Supreme Court has ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial ...

Louisiana lawmakers drew the contested plan this year in order to resolve a lawsuit brought by Black voters that challenged the state’s initial congressional plan after the 2020 census – a map ...