The revised map appears poised to be approved by the City Council next month as the city wraps up its six-month process of moving from at-large to district-based elections.

The state’s Republican-dominated legislature drew a new congressional map in 2022 to account for population shifts reflected in the 2020 Census. But the changes effectively maintained the status quo ...

“Our expert did opine that the maps passed by Republican members of legislature gave them an unnatural and unfair advantage,” said Ronnie White Jr., the attorney representing Dems in the lawsuit.

They transformed Republican Rep. Garret Graves’ Baton Rouge-based 6th Congressional District from one that was 64% White into one with a constituency of 57% Black residents.

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an i… ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court granted an emergency stay today in Robinson v.Callais, pausing enforcement of a district court’s decision to strike down Louisiana’s congressional map as a racial ...

But when the non-Black voters challenged the new map, they went to a different federal court – the district court of Louisiana’s Western District. The court allowed the Black voters who sued ...

After all, when they first drew new maps after the 2020 census, they tried to keep the status quo – a single Black-majority district among six in a state where one-third of the population is ...

The 2-1 ruling forbids the use of a map drawn up in January by the Legislature after a different federal judge blocked a map from 2022. The earlier map maintained a single Black-majority district ...

A panel of federal judges rejected Louisiana's new congressional map, which made two of the state's six districts majority-Black. This state's map from 2022 was also federally blocked.