The Louisiana case could affect the balance of power in a narrowly divided Congress and shape how states factor race into the ...

Louisiana defends legislative maps with court decision civil rights groups oppose National Urban League president Marc Morial calls ruling 'intellectually bankrupt' ...

Failure to construct fair and equitable maps leaves Louisiana vulnerable to judicial intervention, wastes taxpayer dollars and places our state once again on the wrong side of voting rights history.

The goal is for Louisiana’s maps to be finalized by May in order to be utilized during the elections later this year. Following the 5 th circuit’s order, former Democratic Gov. John Bel ...

The day National Urban League President Marc Morial slammed a federal court decision as an “intellectually bankrupt” erosion of the Voting Rights Act, the state of Louisiana used that same ...

See live updates of Louisiana election results from the 2024 election, including Senate and House races, ... including county-by-county maps and breakdowns: District 1 District 2 District 3 ...

G.O.P. legislatures in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana are contesting federal orders to redraw congressional maps that disfavor Black voters. The stakes are enormous.

On Feb. 10, a federal court ruled that Louisiana’s House and Senate voting district maps violated Section Two of the Voting Rights Act and diluted the voting power of Black residents in the state.

A federal appeals court says the Louisiana legislature should get one last chance to revise its congressional district map before a constitutional challenge to the current plan moves forward. A ...

Then-U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry of Louisiana speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Oct. 2011. Now the state's governor, Landry on Tuesday addressed the need for a new congressional map in the ...

Louisiana officials, helped by the 5th Circuit, seem to be procedurally walking in slow motion, trying to delay producing a map that would likely give Democrats a House seat until they butt up ...

Louisianans are living in a time of profound consequence where political ideology and political identity are at the center of fundamental questions impacting the state’s constitution ...