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Capital Access Reporter Paul Braun breaks down this recent ruling with WRKF’s Adam Vos.

There's one item on the ballot for New Orleans voters on April 30. Here's what you need to know.

In a surprising vote, a Republican-controlled House committee advanced a proposed state Supreme Court map that increases the number of majority-Black districts for the state’s highest court. It was the first time either of the Republican-controlled committees at the center of the redistricting process advanced legislation that would create new majority-minority districts in the state.

Senate approves congressional map despite Democrats’ and civil rights groups’ opposition and a last-minute revelation that a firm hired by GOP legislative leaders offered input behind closed doors.

The leading proposal from GOP leadership would maintain the current racial makeup of House districts.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear why protestors at the state capitol are pushing back against some of the new proposed congressional maps. And, we learn about Orleans Parish School Board’s search for a new superintendent of schools.

In Louisiana, a state where roughly one-out-of-three residents are Black, only one of the state’s six congressional districts has a majority Black population where voters of color stand a chance of choosing who will represent them.

Louisiana’s once-in-a-decade restricting session will officially begin Feb. 1, state lawmakers announced Tuesday.

As the decennial redistricting session looms in Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday that he supports redrawing the state’s congressional maps to include two majority minority districts to better represent the state’s Black population.

A federal judge this week may decide the fate of the controversial emergency elections plan proposed by Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin after...