Agreeing with the challengers, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick blocked Louisiana from using the lines drawn in 2022 in any ...

Agreeing with the challengers, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick blocked Louisiana from using the lines drawn in 2022 in any elections and gave state lawmakers the opportunity to draw a new map that ...

This time Fields was the beneficiary of a new map that transformed the 6th District to a second majority Black district ...

That came after state officials and voting rights advocates had made an emergency judicial request in efforts to finalize the ...

But the district’s boundaries have recently been recrafted. In January state lawmakers passed Louisiana’s new congressional ...

Democrat Cleo Fields has won a Louisiana congressional race in a recently redrawn second majority-Black district. That flips ...

The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the Alabama ruling, prompting the creation of a new map with an additional district likely to elect a Black representative. The justices sent the Louisiana case ...

Noting the size of the state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal court and won a ruling from U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick that the districts ...

According to Louisiana Redistricting's website, the original district map was overturned in court, and was redrawn to have two majority-Black districts. However, the new lines for the 6th ...

Cleo Fields, a longtime Baton Rouge politician, won more than 50 percent of the vote in an open primary, negating the need ...

At issue now is Louisiana’s new map, which the Legislature passed in January to avoid a court taking over the drawing of the lines. It includes a second majority-Black district. The new map came ...