The court’s choice to punt a key redistricting case signals trouble for the future of the Voting Rights Act. Truthout is an ...

The case that would have determined whether one of the state's two majority-Black congressional districts was a racial ...

Sixty years ago this summer, Congress enacted the nation-transforming Voting Rights Act. Soon, however, Congress and a ...

Louisiana officials react after the U.S. Supreme Court delayed its ruling on Louisiana’s congressional map and will rehear the case, with Justice Clarence Thomas warning that race-based ...

The ruling affects Louisiana’s current congressional map (Senate Bill 8 or SB8), which features two ... reflects our communities and upholds the hope of true and substantive political representation.” ...

Today the U.S. Supreme Court sent the consolidated Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v ... the courts would draw their own version. If the two M/M map sticks. Landry will take a political hit. And ...

The Supreme Court on Friday put off ruling on a second Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, instead ordering ...

NEW ORLEANS — It’s a map born out of debate, compromise, and a court mandate that found itself before the Supreme Court. “For ...

The case is being closely watched because at arguments in March several of the court’s conservative justices suggested they ...

At issue is the Louisiana legislature's creation of a Black-majority congressional district, which a group of voters claimed ...