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The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Monday with a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral ...
When lawmakers adopted a map that included only one majority-Black district despite the shift, the Louisiana State Conference of the N.A.A.C.P., the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice and ...
It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisiana’s latest redistricting plan. The state and a group of Black voters ask the justices to ...
A redistricting battle over Louisiana's congressional map has spanned years and been before the Supreme Court twice already.
The Supreme Court’s conservative justices aired concerns Monday about race in redistricting, in a case about Louisiana's ...
In 2022, the Louisiana legislature adopted a congressional map that included only one majority-Black district among the six allotted to the state, though a third of the state’s population is Black. Th ...
The Supreme Court on Monday weighed whether a Louisiana congressional map that includes two majority ... Supporters of the second majority-black district argue it is warranted in part because at least ...
The court fight over Louisiana's congressional districts has lasted three years. Two maps were blocked by lower courts, and the Supreme Court has intervened twice. Most recently, the court ordered the ...
Fields added that other Louisiana congressional districts are more spread ... which required the state’s legislature to redraw its congressional map to include a second Black-majority district ...
The Court decided an identical case two years ago. But every voting rights case that reaches this Court is dangerous.