The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Monday with a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in the ...

The court fight over Louisiana's congressional districts has lasted three years. Two maps were blocked by lower courts, and the Supreme Court has intervened twice. Most recently, the court ordered the ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether Louisiana lawmakers can use race as a factor when drawing congressional maps, a closely watched case that could impact voters nationwide in the ...

A redistricting battle over Louisiana's congressional map has spanned years and been before the Supreme Court twice already.

A majority of the court appeared skeptical of a challenge to Louisiana’s voting map. The challengers had argued the state impermissibly relied on race to draw its map. By Abbie VanSickle ...

Heeding the federal courts’ directive to pass lawful districts, the state legislature passed a new map in 2024 that added a second majority-Black voting district, marking a victory for the NAACP ...

(CNN) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Monday in a years-old, messy legal battle over Louisiana’s congressional districts that could have nationwide implications for how states ...

WASHINGTON − Louisiana last year sent two Black representatives to Congress for the first time in almost three decades under a congressional map being challenged as unfair to the state’s non ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices aired concerns Monday about race in redistricting, in a case about Louisiana's congressional map.

"We'd rather not be back at this podium defending a new map this fall," Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguinaga told the justices on Monday. Aguinaga said the state was happy with the ...