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 three-judge panel on Tuesday threw out Louisiana’s recently redrawn congressional map that included an additional majority-Black district, leaving the state without a settled ...
A panel of federal judges struck down a recently proposed congressional map in Louisiana, deeming the delineated boundaries, ...
A federal three-judge panel has thrown out Louisiana's new congressional map that created a second Black district, leaving ...
Despite courts finding voting maps to be discriminatory, conservative judges and state officials are working to keep racist ...
The panel ruled Tuesday that a newly redrawn congressional map violated the Equal Protection Clause. A federal three-judge panel on Tuesday threw out Louisiana’s recently redrawn congressional map ...
Earlier this year, Louisiana’s GOP-controlled Legislature – with the support of newly elected Republican Gov. Jeff Landry – approved a map with the new district to comply with a federal ...
A battle in the Supreme Court appears likely after three federal judges rejected Louisiana’s new congressional district map ...
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A panel of federal judges struck down a congressional map on Tuesday that would have given Democrats an advantage in November. The United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana ...