Louisiana, Cleo Fields

Graves' District 6 was reconfigured to create the second majority-minority district. It now stretches from Shreveport, in ...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide the ongoing legal dispute over issues of race relating to Louisiana's ...
The new district at issue in the case slashes diagonally from ... Black residents make up some 54% of voters – up from ...
The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the Alabama ruling, prompting the creation of a new map with an additional district ...
The case, which will not affect this election cycle, involves a legal fight over how the state draws its voting maps and ...
Noting the size of the state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal ...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral ...
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 ...