Graves' District 6 was reconfigured to create the second majority-minority district. It now stretches from Shreveport, in ...
The case involves two majority-Black districts and will impact how states craft minority voting districts to comply with the ...
Noting the size of the state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal ...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral ...
The case, which will not affect this election cycle, involves a legal fight over how the state draws its voting maps and ...
The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the Alabama ruling, prompting the creation of a new map with an additional district ...
The Supreme Court will hear arguments early next year in the latest chapter in a protracted dispute over race and redistricting in Louisiana. In a list of orders from the justices’ private conference ...
Louisiana has had two congressional maps blocked by lower courts and the Supreme ... the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal court and won a ruling from U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick that the ...
Two of the three federal judges selected by the U.S ... the Legislature’s existing map with two majority Black districts ...
That came after state officials and voting rights advocates had made an emergency judicial request in efforts to finalize the state's congressional district map in order to meet required legal ...