A federal judge agreed to postpone the Aug. 25 hearing and stayed the case after listening to arguments from the state ...

Louisiana officials react after the U.S. Supreme Court delayed its ruling on Louisiana's congressional map and will rehear the case, with Justice Clarence Thomas warning that race-based districts ...

Coined over two centuries ago, the term "gerrymander" emerged in the US as a pejorative descriptor for the political ...

State officials and civil rights groups have appealed a lower court's ruling that found the map laying out Louisiana's six U.S. House of Representatives districts - with two Black-majority ...

The Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge. The state used a contested map to hold elections in 2024; voters elected a second Black Democrat, Cleo Fields, to their congressional delegation.

The Supreme Court punted on Friday in a major legal challenge to Louisiana’s long-litigated congressional map, taking the unusual step of holding the case over for a second term.

State officials and civil rights groups have appealed a lower court’s ruling that found the map laying out Louisiana’s six U.S. House of Representatives districts — with two Black-majority ...