U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick agreed with the challengers andissued an injunctionblocking the state from conducting any elections under the 2022-drawn lines. She then gave state lawmakers the opportunity to come up with a new map that included an additional majority-minority congressional district...
Agreeing with the challengers, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dickblocked Louisianafrom using the lines drawn in 2022 in any elections and gave state lawmakers the opportunity to draw a new map that included an additional majority-Black congressional district. While the litigation was underway...
The Supreme Court is taking up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana’s congressional map with two mostly Black districts.
veto of a new congressional map, ensuring the state will maintain only a single majority-black district among its six seats. edwards rejected the map earlier this month, saying lawmakers should have created a second majority-black district to account for the southern state's larg...
The Louisiana case had been on hold pending the decision in a redistricting case involving Alabama. Monday’s order follows the court’s rejection earlier in June of a congressional redistricting map in Alabama. In both states, Black voters are a majority in just one...
In both states, Black voters are a majority in just one congressional district. Lower courts had ruled that the maps raised concerns that Black voting power had been diluted, in violation of the landmark federal Voting Rights Act. The justices had allowed the state’s chal...
the South consistently gained Congressional representation. Meanwhile, the region’s political profile changed dramatically. A split in theDemocratic Partyin response to its postwarcivil rightsplatform led to the ascendency ofGeorge Wallaceand caused many segregationist Southernconservativesto flee to theRepub...
Redistricting will occur in 2021 after the 2020 Census. While Louisiana is expected to maintain its 6 congressional districts, expect some changes to the district boundaries that will be effective with the 2022 election. To create and share your own forecast, visit the2020 House Interactive Map....
Yesterday, under threat of federal court intervention,the GOP-controlled Louisiana state legislature approved a new congressional map drawing two Black-majority districts — and effectively squeezing Graves out of his seat after five terms while leaving the district of a more junior colleague, ...
Louisiana's congressional map The first map adopted by Republican state lawmakers in 2022 consisted of five majority-White congressional districts and one majority-Black district, though roughly one-third of the state's population is Black. The group of Black voters and civil rights groups c...