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.

Louisiana lawmakers passed a new congressional map on Friday designed to pick up a Republican seat while leaving the state with just one of its two majority-Black House districts represented by Democrats.

Louisiana Republicans approved a new congressional map Friday, eliminating one of the state’s two majority-Black districts and drawing an additional Republican-leaning district in its place

Louisiana's Republican lawmakers raced to eliminate one of two majority-Black congressional seats in the state after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the current map unconstitutional in a sweeping ruling.

After a month of contentious political battles, the Louisiana Legislature gave final approval Friday to a voting map for Congress that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts. Spurred by a U.

Louisiana lawmakers on Friday approved a new congressional map that could allow Republicans to flip one of the state's two Democratic-held U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterms. More than 223 people are suspected to have died from the outbreak in DRC and Uganda.

Louisiana lawmakers passed a new congressional map expected to give Republicans another House seat, cutting Democrats’ majority-Black districts to one.

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.