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 ...

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 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 ...

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Louisiana, however, insists it adopted S.B. 8 in response to an earlier federal court order finding that its original map, which included just one Black district, likely violated Section 2 of the ...

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.

The Supreme Court on Friday put off ruling on a second Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, instead ordering new arguments in the fall.The case is being closely watched because at ...

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 ...