This time Fields was the beneficiary of a new map that transformed the 6th District to a second majority Black district ...
The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the Alabama ruling, prompting the creation of a new map with an additional district ...
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 ...
Then Louisiana drew the current map in January with a second Black-majority district, which stretched from Baton Rouge to Shreveport. A different group of voters successfully challenged that map ...
Voters may notice they are voting in a different district than in previous elections. This is because the Louisiana ...
The Republican-controlled Louisiana legislature approved the map in January after U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick in 2022 ruled that a map it previously had adopted containing only a single Black ...
Louisiana's redistricting plan first began in 2021, with legislature originally drawing a map with a single-majority Black district, despite the fact that one third of Louisiana's population is Black.
"Without this Court's intervention, the State will be sued again no matter what it does," Louisiana Solicitor General J.
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving Louisiana's congressional district map with two Black-majority ...
Three different federal courts are fighting among themselves over who gets to draw Louisiana’s congressional maps. In June ...
For days, people in Louisiana have been casting their early ballots. And for the first time, many people — including some in ...
YOU KNOW H Louisiana has made history ... The AP reports that the GOP had resisted drawing another minority district, arguing that the 2022 map is fair and constitutional. But in an about-face ...