The U.S. Supreme Court scheduled a March 24 hearing to determine whether Louisiana will have one or two majority-Black ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has now granted emergency relief to the state of Louisiana ... new congressional maps. Lawmakers approved the map creating a second majority black congressional district ...

Julia Letlow, the only woman in Louisiana's congressional delegation. But the new map changed the district of GOP Rep. Garret Graves, who backed Gov. Jeff Landry's Republican opponent in the 2023 ...

Instead, in 2022, the Louisiana State Legislature overrode a veto to pass a congressional map that had only one majority-Black district. Advocacy organizations and Black voters sued the state ...

The congressional district map passed by the Louisiana Legislature in 2024 includes ... ordering the Legislature to adopt a new map. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later upheld this finding ...