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 ...

“Louisiana ... Civil War efforts – particularly in the South – to limit the political power of African Americans. And yet the equal protection clause demands that a state cannot draw a map ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, voting rights advocates argued before the Supreme Court ... “Federal courts found Louisiana’s 2022 Congressional maps violated the Voting Rights Act, a crucial piece of civil ...

Callais was heard before the Supreme Court. At the center of the debate is Louisiana's congressional district map, which now includes a sixth district stretching from Shreveport, roughly 250 miles ...

US Supreme Court Wrestles With Louisiana Electoral Map With More Black-Majority Districts ... ratified in 1868 in the aftermath of the American Civil War, addressed issues relating to the rights ...