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Louisiana tried last-ditch effort to avoid new congressional map. This court squashed it BY MEGHAN FRIEDMANN | Staff writer Dec 15, 2023 Dec 15, 2023Updated Dec 15, 2023 2 min to read ...

That left Louisiana without a congressional map and the state's U.S. House members and their voters in the dark on representation. Monday's status conference wasn't conducted in open court.

The plan adopted reconfigured Louisiana's 6th Congressional District to adhere to the district court's order and bring the map into compliance with the Voting Rights Act, state officials said.

The U.S. Supreme Court restored a Louisiana electoral map that has two of the state's six congressional districts with Black-majority populations for use in the Nov. 5 election - a ruling on ...

While Black Louisianans make up about one-third of the state’s population, the map includes just one majority-Black district out of six. The plaintiffs say that makeup fails to give Black voters ...

Four Louisiana parishes: St. John the Baptist, Terrebonne, Plaquemines and St. Charles all ranked in the top 10 of counties nationwide that lost the greatest percentage of their population ...

The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to speed up Louisiana's congressional map redrawing after a lower court found the map likely violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voters' power.

Federal courts are giving Louisiana's GOP-led legislature until Jan. 30, 2024, to draw a new congressional map to replace one found likely to violate federal law by diluting Black voters' power.

BATON ROUGE, La. — Today, the Louisiana Legislature passed a map that creates a second majority-Black congressional district after being granted a final opportunity to pass a map before a federal ...