Noting the size of the state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal ...

The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the Alabama ruling, prompting the creation of a new map with an additional district ...

The high court eventually affirmed the ruling from Alabama, which led to a new map and a second district that could elect a Black lawmaker. The justices returned the Louisiana case to federal ...

Agreeing with the challengers, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick blocked Louisiana from using the lines drawn in 2022 in any elections and gave state lawmakers the opportunity to draw a new map that ...

At issue now is Louisiana’s new map, which the Legislature passed in January to avoid a court taking over the drawing of the lines. It includes a second majority-Black district. The new map came ...