Callais was heard before the Supreme Court. At the center of the debate is Louisiana's congressional district map, which now includes a sixth district stretching from Shreveport, roughly 250 miles ...

A redistricting battle over Louisiana's congressional map has spanned years and been before the Supreme Court twice already.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The U.S. Supreme Court took up the legality of Louisiana’s new congressional map on Monday (March 24), and whatever the high court decides will have far-reaching implications.

The Supreme Court justices heard arguments from both sides about the map’s constitutionality ... that was clear today in court.” The 6th Congressional District winds from Shreveport to Baton Rouge, ...

Cleo Fields was elected to the 6th congressional district ... that map, but the justices allowed it to be used in 2024 after an emergency appeal from the state and civil rights groups. Louisiana ...

Two maps were blocked by lower courts ... doesn't have to touch that issue to resolve the Louisiana case. The reconfigured 6th Congressional District stretches across the state, linking parts ...

But S.B. 8′s backers had reportedly preferred a map that would likely unseat the sixth district's Republican incumbent, Rep. Garret Graves, a political rival of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.

It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisiana’s latest redistricting plan. The state and a group of Black voters ask the justices to ...

Louisiana’s current map was adopted after a federal court ruled its original post-2020 census map, with just one black-majority district out of six, violated federal law. But after lawmakers ...