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Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will allow Louisiana ... to come up with a new map that included an additional majority-minority congressional district.
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana has a new congressional map, with a second majority-Black district, after Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed it into law on Monday. The new map is a win for Black ...
Landry has said he supports the map. The new map increases the Black makeup of Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District from 23 percent to 54 percent. The seat is held by Rep. Garret Graves ...
Richard Pildes, a constitutional law professor at New York University ... try again before imposing its own map. Louisiana officials told the Supreme Court district boundaries needed to be settled ...
A new congressional map giving Louisiana a second majority-Black House district was rejected Tuesday by a panel of three federal judges, fueling new uncertainty about district boundaries as the ...
The new map created a second Black majority district that now looks like a lap ... While of particular interest to Louisiana, the outcome of the Callais vs. Landry case also has gotten national ...
Louisiana election officials have said they need to know the state's congressional district boundaries by May 15,(J. David Ake / ASSOCIATED PRESS) NEW ORLEANS — A new congressional district map ...
Twelve “non-African American” voters are named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Western District of Louisiana, based in Shreveport. It argues the new map is ...
A panel of three federal judges struck down Louisiana's new congressional lines ... redrew the state's congressional map to add a second Black-majority district after a court ruled that the ...
A federal three-judge panel has thrown out Louisiana's new congressional map that created a second Black district, leaving the state's political boundaries in question with the November election ...
Under the new map, 54 percent of the voting-age ... In June 2022, Baton Rouge-based U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick struck down Louisiana’s map for violating the Voting Rights Act.
Louisiana state lawmakers approved a new congressional map on Friday, drawing a second majority-Black district to comply with a court order. A federal court had ruled in 2022 that Louisiana’s ...