The judges noted testimony, however, that the office could be prepared if maps were in place by the end of May. The candidate sign-up period is in mid-July. More from Politics ...

The 2-1 ruling forbids the use of a map drawn up in January by the Legislature after a different federal judge blocked a map from 2022. The earlier map maintained a single Black-majority district ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A new congressional district map giving Louisiana a second majority-Black House district was rejected Tuesday by a panel of three federal judges, fueling new uncertainty about ...

In June 2022, Baton Rouge-based U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick issued an injunction against the map, saying challengers would likely win their claim that it violated the Voting Rights Act.

What the Alabama congressional map fight could mean for 2024 03:53. Federal judges on Thursday selected new congressional lines for Alabama to give the Deep South state a second district where ...

The judges ruled last year that Alabama’s map, with one majority Black district out of seven in a state where one-fourth of residents are Black, ...

The three-judge court allowed the Legislature time to pass a new map. But the court found that the map approved during a special session in July did not fix the likely Voting Rights Act violation.

The judge will hear from both sides of the original suit and decide if the case and settlement agreement are now moot, since lawmakers have already approved a different map.

Judges dismiss suit alleging Tennessee's political maps discriminate against communities of color The Tennessee House of Representatives meets, Oct. 27, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. Credit: AP/Mark ...

Judges noted in their Friday order that the redrawn map had gone through several rounds of public comment and was not objected to by the plaintiffs who sought the redraw. The new map will be used ...

This opinion provides a road map for judges who may wish to do so." The committee's opinion is largely unchanged from a draft issued for public review in August.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A federal judicial panel has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Tennessee's U.S. House maps and those for the state Senate amount to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering ...