The name wasn't meant to be a political statement, but a symbol of the local community's connection to the environment.

The decision halts nearly all work related to the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, which has been planned and studied for ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which ...

— Attorney General Liz Murrill (@AGLizMurrill) March 24, 2025 Louisiana’s current map was adopted after a federal court ruled its original post-2020 census map, with just one black-majority ...

Edward Greim, the attorney representing the “non-African American” voters who challenged the map, stressed that Louisiana was not under a direct court order to draw a new map. The state had ...

It also marks the latest chapter in the long-running, messy saga over Louisiana’s congressional map that began after the 2020 census. “Louisiana would rather not be here,” Louisiana Solicito ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices expressed concerns Monday about the future of race in redistricting, part of oral arguments in the yearslong fight over a second Black-majority ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which has two Black majority districts for the first time. Several of the court ...