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 ...
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 control of ...
A federal three-judge panel has given the Louisiana Legislature until June 3 to draw a new congressional map for the Nov. 5 ...
A panel of federal judges rejected a freshly drawn congressional map, creating a second majority-Black district in Louisiana. In a 2-1 ruling on April 30, judges ruled the new maps constituted ...
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 (WVUE) — After a new Louisiana congressional map was rejected by a panel of three federal judges in Shreveport, it’s back to the drawing board for legislators who said they were ...
Louisiana’s six U.S. House members still don’t know the shape of the districts they’ll run for this fall. But that should clarify within a month, according to an order promulgated Tuesday by ...
Justice Samuel Alito brings no vision and no unique insights to his job — other than unrelenting loyalty to the GOP.
A panel of three federal judges has ordered the Louisiana Legislature to take another stab at drawing the state’s congressional districts, the latest update in a years-long saga that has seen ...