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 ...

It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisiana’s latest ...

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

Louisiana first adopted a congressional map after the 2020 census which included one Black-majority congressional district of the six in the state. After a lawsuit filed by voting rights groups ...

During the hearing, Louisiana officials argued that the state’s Republican-controlled legislature did not draw the map with race as the primary factor. The state said the map was also designed ...

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave lawmakers in Louisiana a deadline of early 2024 to draw a new map or face the possibility of a court-imposed map. The state complied and drew a new map.

Heeding the federal courts’ directive to pass lawful districts, the state legislature passed a new map in 2024 that added a second majority-Black voting district, marking a victory for the NAACP ...