The Supreme Court has ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections using a House map with a second mostly Black district ...
The high court eventually affirmed the ruling from Alabama and returned the Louisiana case to federal court, with the expectation that new maps would be in place for the 2024 elections. The 5th U ...
A year later, in mid-2023, the Supreme Court handed down an unexpected 5-4 ruling in the Alabama case, finding that the state’s map diluted Black voting power in violation of the Voting Rights ...
A group of Black voters and civil rights groups on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to let Louisiana use its newest congressional map for this year’s elections, urging them to halt a court ...
The Supreme Court has put the effort to redraw Louisiana’s congressional districts for a second time since the last election on ice, clearing the way for a map that includes two majority-Black ...
That ruling from a three-judge federal court last month found the state’s new congressional map violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and ordered that it not be used. The ...
After the 2020 census, each state redrew its congressional district lines (if it had more than one seat) and its state ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a Republican-held South Carolina congressional district, rejecting a lower-court ruling that said the district discriminated against Black voters. The ruling ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a pro-Republican redraw of a South Carolina congressional district did not ...
The map is set for this fall’s congressional elections, splitting Lafayette between two districts. But the fight over ...