The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Monday with a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral ...

The state’s briefing at the Supreme Court drips with exasperation: Louisiana ... Civil War efforts – particularly in the South – to limit the political power of African Americans. And yet the equal ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in a bid by Louisiana ... the map's design. The amendment, ratified in 1868 in the aftermath of the American Civil War ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts ...

The question before the court: Did Louisiana lawmakers improperly rely on race when they drafted the map? The case could ... legislative achievement of the civil rights era, though its scope ...

The latest case before the court involves Louisiana's congressional map, which was redrawn last ... "It would make it very difficult for civil rights groups, minority voters, to bring claims ...

“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 ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with key battles fought in places like Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina ...

Edward Greim, the attorney representing the “non-African American” voters who challenged the map, stressed that Louisiana was ... to decades of post-Civil War efforts – particularly in ...

The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was detained by ICE agents in Massachusetts, driven to Vermont and flown to a detention center ...