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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The United States is halfway to the next once-a-decade census, but the Supreme Court is still dealing with lawsuits that grew out of the last one. The justices on Monday are taking up a challenge to ...
Then, after the Court decided Milligan, a federal appeals court agreed that the original maps at issue in Robinson are ...
The Court decided an identical case two years ago. But every voting rights case that reaches this Court is dangerous.
The NAACP Louisiana State Conference and a group of Black voters are also defending S.B. 8. The high court's liberal justices appeared sympathetic that the state had adopted its new map—with its ...
The case could have potential implications for the 2026 midterm elections. The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with whether or not to send Louisiana legislators back to the drawing board in a ...
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 ...
Callais, an important battle over Black voters’ electoral power under Louisiana’s congressional map. In the lower courts, seven judges from across the ideological spectrum concluded that ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Monday over a challenge to Louisiana's congressional map, which added a second Black majority district. Several of the court's ...