(Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP, File) (CN) — Louisiana officials asked the Fifth Circuit Tuesday to overturn a lower court finding that the state's congressional map illegally dilutes the Black ...

Instead, in 2022, the Louisiana State Legislature overrode a veto to pass a congressional map that had only one majority-Black district. Advocacy organizations and Black voters sued the state ...

(Louisiana Illuminator ... ranging from congressional districts to legislative seats. Black voters have argued their voices have not been fairly represented in maps that legislators have ...