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The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Monday with a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in the ...
The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether Louisiana lawmakers can use race as a factor when drawing congressional maps, a closely watched case that could impact voters nationwide in the ...
A redistricting battle over Louisiana's congressional map has spanned years and been before the Supreme Court twice already.
A majority of the court appeared skeptical of a challenge to Louisiana’s voting map. The challengers had argued the state impermissibly relied on race to draw its map. By Abbie VanSickle ...
The Supreme Court’s conservative justices aired concerns Monday about race in redistricting, in a case about Louisiana's congressional map.
It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisiana’s latest redistricting plan. The state and a group of Black voters ask the justices to ...
The case could have potential implications for the 2026 midterm elections. The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with whether or not to send Louisiana legislators back to the drawing board in a ...
A U.S. Supreme Court hearing about the constitutionality of Louisiana's congressional map Monday veered into a discussion about compliance with U.S. court orders, a topic that has taken on ...
In 2022, the Louisiana legislature adopted a congressional map that included only one majority-Black district among the six allotted to the state, though a third of the state’s population is Black. Th ...
WASHINGTON − Louisiana last year sent two Black representatives to Congress for the first time in almost three decades under a congressional map being challenged as unfair to the state’s non ...
The Supreme Court on Monday weighed whether a Louisiana congressional map that includes two majority-black districts for the first time in decades is a lawful effort to comply with the Voting ...