Louisiana's congressional map. The first map adopted by Republican state lawmakers in 2022 consisted of five majority-White congressional districts and one majority-Black district, though roughly ...

Alabama, Georgia and Ohio face congressional map controversies 05:58. Washington — Republican officials in Louisiana asked the Supreme Court on Friday to step into a long-running dispute over ...

The justices heard arguments in an appeal by state officials and advocacy groups of a lower court's 2024 ruling that found that the map delineating Louisiana's six U.S. House of Representatives ...

Louisiana’s map has been the subject of intense litigation, with the state’s original effort ruled to be a racial gerrymander. Using the Legislature’s original map, Republicans won five of ...

Louisiana officials react after the U.S. Supreme Court delayed its ruling on Louisiana's congressional map and will rehear the case, with Justice Clarence Thomas warning that race-based districts ...

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Most recently, the court ordered the new map to be used in the 2024 election.The state’s Republican-dominated legislature drew a new congressional map in 2022 to account for population shifts ...

“Right now, Louisiana has no map,” said state Sen. Cleo Fields, a Black Democrat and former member of Congress, who is one of the candidates running in the new 6th Congressional District ...

The Louisiana legislature then redrew its congressional map in January, creating two majority-Black districts, including one that stretched across the state from Shreveport to Baton Rouge.

The Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge. The state used a contested map to hold elections in 2024; voters elected a second Black Democrat, Cleo Fields, to their congressional delegation.