Its first map after the 2020 census was invalidated by federal courts because the state included only a single majority-Black district, even though Black residents make up roughly one-third of ...

Yet the outcome stands to dictate whether Louisiana’s map can survive in future years and carry broader ... citing the ...

The U.S Supreme Court will hear appeals over Louisiana's congressional map over concerns it discriminates based on race.

Dick concluded that this previous map likely violated the Voting Rights ... Black people comprise nearly a third of Louisiana's population. The Supreme Court in 2023 left Dick's ruling in place.

The winding fight over Louisiana's congressional redistricting plan began in 2022, when Republican state lawmakers adopted a map consisting ... third of the state's population is Black.

finding that the map likely violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 because only one of the six congressional districts had a majority Black population. In January, Louisiana lawmakers approved a ...

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 ...

even though Black residents make up roughly one-third of Louisiana’s population. When it redrew the map to include two majority-Black districts, a group of “non-African American ...