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— Attorney General Liz Murrill (@AGLizMurrill) March 24, 2025 Louisiana’s current map was adopted after a federal court ruled its original post-2020 census map, with just one black-majority ...
The interactive map below shows the percentage of adults who self-reported excessive drinking in 2022. To view that rate, as well as last year’s data, click or hover on each state. The CDC’s ...
The justices on Monday are taking up a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which was drawn so that, for the first time, two of its six districts have majority Black populations that ...
It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisiana’s latest redistricting plan. The state and a group of Black voters ask the justices to ...
A majority of the court appeared skeptical of a challenge to Louisiana’s voting map. The challengers had argued the state impermissibly relied on race to draw its map. By Abbie VanSickle ...
“Midway through this decade, neither Louisiana nor its citizens know what congressional map they can call home.” The case, Louisiana v. Callais, tees up a series of important questions that ...
The Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote declined to stop Louisiana from carrying out its first execution in 15 years later Tuesday with Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the court’s three liberal justices in ...
U.S. On Boil: Pan-America Revolt Against Trump; DC Under Siege, 'Hands Off' Movement Explodes Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk rallied across the U.S. on Saturday to ...
(Louisiana First) — Gov. Jeff Landry signed an executive order to start using the “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” in state documents and maps. The order directs the ...
Louisiana is planning to carry out its first execution in 15 years using a highly contested nitrogen gassing method that it doesn’t even permit to be used against dying cats and dogs under state ...
Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15-year hiatus ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in a possible pivot point in efforts to end the war in Ukraine and an opportunity for ...