The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts ...

By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Monday to hear a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised ...

The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with whether or not to send Louisiana legislators back to the drawing board in a high-stakes dispute over the Voting Rights Act and an election map with two ...

Black Louisiana voters and civil rights advocates call for a fair congressional map in Louisiana v. Callais at the Supreme Court on March 24, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images ...

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 ...

“Louisiana would rather not be here,” the state’s solicitor general, J. Benjamin Aguiñaga, told the justices. Mr. Aguiñaga was adamant that politics, not race, led to the current map.

In its court filing, Louisiana urged the justices to overturn the lower-court ruling, arguing that legislators had drawn the map as a “rescue operation” to make sure to protect powerful ...

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave lawmakers in Louisiana a deadline of early 2024 to draw a new map or face the possibility of a court-imposed map. The state complied and drew a new map.

The Louisiana legislature created the current map in early 2024 after the court effectively shot down the previous map in late 2023. In May, the court ordered the map be used for the 2024 election, ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday tackled an unusual case in which civil rights groups are in a tentative alliance with Republican officials in defending a Louisiana congressional map ...

Supreme Court grapples with role of race in Louisiana election map dispute. The case could have potential implications for the 2026 midterm elections. By Devin Dwyer. March 24, 2025, 3:17 PM.

The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which added a second Black majority district. Several of the court's conservative justices ...