The Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up the fight over Louisiana’s congressional map, which has erupted into 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 ...

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 Democratic Party was able to win the seat for the representative of Louisiana's 6th congressional district for the second ...

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 ...

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 ...

The interactive map below shows the number of residents in each state that have served, as well as the percentage of the ...

Yet the outcome stands to dictate whether Louisiana’s map can survive in future years ... citing the increase in the state’s Black population. A three-judge district court panel ruled in ...