Spurred by a watershed Supreme Court ruling last month that weakened the Voting Rights Act, Republican leaders have created a new map that eliminates one majority-Black, Democratic-leaning district.

Louisiana lawmakers have given final approval to a newly redrawn congressional map that is likely to shift one U. S.

Two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map, state senators passed a plan Thursday that would eliminate a majority-Black district while giving Republicans a chance to win an additional seat in the midterm elections.

Republicans in the Louisiana Senate voted early Wednesday to advance a new congressional map that would give the GOP another seat in the House from the state after a recent Supreme Court decision that struck down its previous lines. Subscribe to read this ...

Approval of the new House map came a month after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state's current map as an illegal racial gerrymander, weakening the landmark 1965 federal Voting Rights Act.

Republican leaders say they’re close to a deal on a new map that both the Senate and House can approve. But Democrats continue to fiercely protest the elimination of a majority-Black district.