The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday over a challenge to Louisiana's recently redrawn voting map and its two Black-majority districts. Plaintiffs claimed that the map violates Section 2 ...

The current map nearly cuts the 4th district, covering western Louisiana, in half with the 6th district. The ruling means the state can’t use it in any future elections. In a Monday statement ...

Two Donald Trump-appointed federal judges handed down a ruling Tuesday that would block Louisiana from using a newly authorized voter map that established an additional majority-Black district.

Louisiana’s current map was adopted after a federal court ruled its original post-2020 census map, with just one black-majority district out of six, violated federal law. But after lawmakers ...

(CNN) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Monday in a years-old, messy legal battle over Louisiana ... to redraw its map to allow for an additional Black majority district.

The high court eventually affirmed the ruling from Alabama, which led to a new map and a second district that could elect a Black lawmaker. The justices returned the Louisiana case to federal ...

Twelve Louisiana voters challenged the new map in federal court last spring ... Landry in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Twelve non-Black plaintiffs filed suit ...