The Supreme Court appeared split along partisan lines Monday over the creation of a second Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana, a case that could affect the balance of power in ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with whether to leave in place Louisiana's congressional map that was used in the 2024 elections and includes two majority-Black districts.

Using the new map to hold elections in 2024 ... adopted a map that included only one majority-Black district despite the shift, the Louisiana State Conference of the N.A.A.C.P., the Power ...

The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump’s efforts ...

Fields added that other Louisiana congressional districts are more spread out. “For the Supreme Court to say you can't do it like that would mean that no legislature in the country can draw ...

The case, Louisiana v. Callais, tees up a series of important questions that deal with race and redistricting. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 requires that states do not dilute the power of ...

In the lower courts, seven judges from across the ideological spectrum concluded that Louisiana’s map needed to include two majority-Black districts to remedy a prior violation of the Voting ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to uphold Louisiana's congressional map, which was used in the 2024 elections and features two majority-Black districts. Reuters reports that the court ...

The Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in a case that could determine whether Louisiana will have to uphold a second majority-Black congressional district. The case more broadly will ...

Voters tell WWL Louisiana that paper ballots ran out at polling sites in Algiers, Metairie, and New Orleans East.