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A panel of federal judges rejected Louisiana's new congressional map, which made two of the state's six districts majority-Black. This state's map from 2022 was also federally blocked.
The Supreme Court on Friday delayed a decision on the constitutionality of Louisiana’s congressional districts until its next ...
A U.S. District judge will soon decide whether Louisiana must add more majority-Black districts to its state legislative map, after civil rights groups argued for that move on Monday.. Inside a ...
The state contended additional factors drove the map, including the politics of protecting powerful incumbent Louisiana Republicans U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (4th District), Majority Leader ...
In that map, just one of Louisiana’s six congressional districts is majority-Black, even though Black Louisianans make up about one-third of the state’s population.
In that earlier case, brought by the NAACP Louisiana State Conference, Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, and nine individual Black voters, a federal court in Baton Rouge found that Louisiana’s ...
On Feb. 10, a federal court ruled that Louisiana’s House and Senate voting district maps violated Section Two of the Voting Rights Act and diluted the voting power of Black residents in the state.
Lawmakers in Louisiana approved the state's new congressional map Friday which increases the total number of majority-Black districts to comply with a previous court ruling.
The judge, Shelly D. Dick of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, ordered the State Legislature to produce a revised map of the state’s six congressional ...
A coalition of civil rights groups led by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and ACLU filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana Monday over its newly-passed district maps for the state Senate and ...
The state’s opponents countered that the district court in the Louisiana case had decided that the 5-1 map likely violated the Voting Rights Act under the same exact legal test the Supreme Court ...
A U.S. District judge will soon decide whether Louisiana must add more majority-Black districts to its state legislative map, after civil rights groups argued for that move on Monday. Inside a ...