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 case before the Supreme Court involves a state voting law that pits minority voter protections against the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.

The United States is halfway to the next once-a-decade census ... Garret Graves chose not to seek reelection under the new map. Louisiana argues that dueling lawsuits over redistricting make it almost ...

A redistricting battle over Louisiana's congressional map has spanned years and been before the Supreme Court twice already.

Using the new map to hold elections in 2024, Louisiana elected a second Black ... Abbie VanSickle covers the United States Supreme Court for The Times. She is a lawyer and has an extensive ...

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 US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday over ... a judicial instruction to correct violations of a previous district map. “Louisiana would rather not be here,” state attorney J. Benjamin ...

Stuart Naifeh, LDF's Redistricting Project Manager, said the Legal Defense Fund objected to one of the first maps drafted. Now, the State of Louisiana and a group of Black voters, including LDF ...

US Supreme Court Wrestles With Louisiana Electoral Map With More Black-Majority Districts ... of Black-majority congressional districts in the state and prompted a challenge by non-Black voters.

State officials and advocacy groups have appealed a lower court's ruling that found the map laying out Louisiana's six U.S. House of Representatives districts - with two Black-majority districts ...