A federal judge in Baton Rouge ruled the map ... is nearly one-third black, under the old map, five of its six congressional districts were predominantly white. The Supreme Court’s stay is ...

The U.S. Supreme Court scheduled a March 24 hearing to determine whether Louisiana will have one or two majority-Black ...

But the changes effectively maintained the status quo of five Republican-leaning majority white ... state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based ...