The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal over Louisiana’s more Democratic-friendly congressional districts, ...

Graves' District 6 was reconfigured to create the second majority-minority district. It now stretches from Shreveport, in ...

Monday's decision puts the spotlight back on an enforcement provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act, Section 2. While Louisiana's majority-Black District 6 will stand for Tuesday's election, the ...

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At its most basic level, the current map gives Louisiana Democrats a chance to ... in the northwest of the state to Baton Rouge in the southeast for some 250 miles to create a district where ...