Redistricting

A three-judge panel from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Friday in a case centered on the redrawing of Louisiana’s congressional map.

Voting rights advocates are locked in a court fight with Louisiana's top Republicans over whether the state must follow Alabama's court-ordered path in drawing a new, Black-majority congressional district.

A panel of federal appeals court judges is set to hear oral arguments Friday in the ongoing legal battle over Louisiana’s congressional maps.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted its hold in a Louisiana redistricting case that could bolster Black voting power in the state. Now lawmakers and officials await an official decision from the appeals court that could impact the 2024 congressional elections.

The East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council approved a redistricting proposal Wednesday expected to preserve the racial and partisan makeup of the Council despite recent census data showing that changing demographics in the parish warranted a new configuration.

The United States Supreme Court intervened in the legal battle over Louisiana’s disputed congressional redistricting proposals Tuesday, pausing a federal civil rights lawsuit and ordering the state to use its controversial status-quo district maps when voters head to the polls this November.

With Saturday’s action, state lawmakers have ceded the responsibility of drawing the congressional districts the state will use for the next ten years to the courts.

A coalition of civil rights groups led by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and ACLU filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana Monday over its newly-passed district maps for the state Senate and House of Representatives, making good on a promise to sue the state for advancing redistricting proposals that failed to increase minority representation.

With the start of the 2022 regular session just days away, state legislative leaders said they may have the votes needed to execute the state’s first veto override in nearly 30 years to force their controversial congressional redistricting proposal into law.

Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoed the proposed Congressional maps passed by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature last month after lawmakers failed to create a second majority-Black district, according to a release from his office Wednesday.