WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is halfway to the next once-a-decade census, but the Supreme Court is still dealing with ...
The case tests the balancing act states must strike in protecting the voting power of a racial minority while not ...
Democrats love to complain about gerrymandering in Republican states even though they are equally at fault in their own states.
The state had been sued for not including enough majority-Black districts in its six-district congressional map and now it was ... being accused of racial gerrymandering. He called states ...
Louisianans traveled to a rainy Washington, D.C., Monday to demand the U.S. Supreme Court give them fair congressional maps.
After hearing arguments, a three-judge panel in the western district of the state struck down Louisiana’s revised map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The court barred the state from using ...
WASHINGTON − Louisiana last year sent two Black representatives to Congress for the first time in almost three decades under a congressional map being challenged as unfair to the state’s non ...
A group of self described none-African American voters argued that the state’s map is an illegal racial gerrymander. “This case is not just about drawing lines. It is about drawing the future.
The state is defending the existing map and plaintiffs seek an overturn on grounds of racial gerrymander. The case could be pivotal as justices could examine the criteria required of state ...