The nation’s most conservative federal appeals court is slated to rehear two redistricting cases, which could determine where and for whom minority voters in a Texas county can cast their ballots and whether a decadesold consent decree in Louisiana will continue.
Louisiana asked the U.S. Supreme Court today to pause a lower federal court ruling that struck down the state’s new congressional map so the state can prepare for the 2024 election season.
Black Louisiana voters and civil rights organizations are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the state’s congressional map to remain in place while they appeal a lower court ruling that struck it down.
Louisianans may finally get new legislative and congressional maps this summer under two court orders that lay out a timeline for when compliant maps must be in place.
A group of Black voters are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the district court ruling that struck down the map — and quickly.
Voters in Louisiana will have a new Supreme Court map for the first time in over two decades after Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed a new map into law last night that creates two majority-Black districts.
Black voters are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review yesterday’s decision by two Trump-appointed federal judges that blocked Louisiana’s new congressional map with two majority-Black districts.
A federal court has struck down the congressional map intended to better represent Louisiana’s Black voters in compliance with the Voting Rights Act.
Voters in Louisiana could soon have a new Supreme Court map for the first time in over two decades if Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signs a bill passed by the Legislature that would create two majority-Black districts.
The U.S. Supreme Court this morning declined to take up a Republican legal challenge to Washington’s state-level voting rights act, thereby leaving in place the law’s robust protections for minority voters.