Landry said the state would have been deprived of the chance to defend itself if Dick had been allowed to proceed, and “the Louisiana Legislature would have lost the opportunity to draw a new ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide a thorny legal dispute from Louisiana involving the state's effort to draw a congressional district map while navigating claims it is ...

Louisiana state lawmakers approved a new congressional map on Friday, drawing a second majority-Black district to comply with a court order. A federal court had ruled in 2022 that Louisiana’s ...

After the trial, both sides - the state of Louisiana and the plaintiffs ... reasonable period of time" to address her rulings and re-draw the maps. Our media partners at The Advocate posted ...

WASHINGTON − Louisiana last year sent two Black representatives to Congress for the first time in almost three decades under a congressional map being challenged as unfair to the state’s non ...