The new map is expected to give Democrats an edge in upcoming elections. The map was approved by the state’s Senate on Wednesday and passed in the Louisiana House by a landslide 86-16 vote.

Under the new map, Louisiana's 2nd District ... Republican Garret Graves, an ally of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, represents the 6th and risks losing his seat under the new map, which ...

leaving Louisiana with just one majority-Black district out of seven. Senate Bill 8, which would enact the new congressional map, passed 86-17 in the House and 27-11 in the Senate. It now heads to ...

The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a new congressional map that includes a second Black majority House district in Louisiana can be used in November after a lower court rejected that map ...

A panel of three federal judges struck down Louisiana's new congressional lines on Tuesday, surprisingly throwing a last-minute twist into the 2024 congressional map. Earlier this year ...

Although a third of Louisianians are Black, less than a third of state legislative districts have majority Black populations.

including House Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Rep. Julia Letlow, the only woman in Louisiana's congressional delegation. But the new map changed the district of GOP Rep.

The U.S. Supreme Court will determine whether the new map will be officially ... which found that the map outlining Louisiana’s six U.S. House districts violated the 14th Amendment’s equal ...

Using the new map to hold elections in 2024, Louisiana elected a second Black ... Among them: Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House. “We made the politically rational decision,” he said.

The lawsuit, filed by 12 nonblack voters, alleged the new map unlawfully discriminates ... for the 2024 election. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) argued against Louisiana lawmakers creating ...