Louisiana state Sen. Cleo Fields (D), who served in Congress in the 1990s, has declared his candidacy for a new majority-Black congressional district created in January by the Legislature.
In a 2-to-1 decision, the panel sided with challengers who argued that the map that created a second Black majority district was an “impermissible racial gerrymander.” By Rick Rojas Reporting ...
Two Donald Trump-appointed federal judges handed down a ruling Tuesday that would block Louisiana from using a newly authorized voter map that established an additional majority-Black district.
NEW ORLEANS — A panel of federal judges who recently threw out a congressional election map giving Louisiana a second mostly Black district said Tuesday the state Legislature must pass a new map ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The congressional map state lawmakers passed in 2020 had only one black-majority district out of six while the state’s population remains about one-third African American.
(CNN) — A federal court on Tuesday tossed out a newly drawn congressional map that created a second majority-Black district in Louisiana – in a potential blow to Democrats seeking to seize ...
A federal court has blocked Louisiana from using the state's new congressional map for this year's elections, marking the latest twist in a long-running redistricting battle over the rights of the ...
A federal court has blocked Louisiana from using the state's new congressional map for this year's elections, marking the latest twist in a long-running redistricting battle over the rights of the ...
WASHINGTON — Atop the minds of all six U.S. House members from Louisiana is a Monday status conference that is expected to chart a path out of the morass created when two federal judges ...
An updating tracker of developments in midcycle redistricting. After the 2020 census, each state redrew its congressional district lines (if it had more than one seat) and its state legislative ...