Louisiana Congressman Garret Graves listed as nominee for US Department of Transportation Copyright 2024 Nexstar Media, Inc.

Graves' District 6 was reconfigured to create the second majority-minority district. It now stretches from Shreveport, in ...

Garret Graves of Louisiana announced Friday that he will not seek reelection, ending months of uncertainty after a new congressional map made his ... s 6th Congressional District was redrawn ...

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up the fight over Louisiana’s congressional map, which has erupted into a ...

Monday's decision puts the spotlight back on an enforcement provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act, Section 2. While Louisiana's majority-Black District 6 will stand for Tuesday's election, the ...

Democrat Cleo Fields has won a Louisiana congressional race in a recently redrawn second majority-Black district ...

Cleo Fields, a longtime Baton Rouge politician, won more than 50 percent of the vote in an open primary, negating the need ...

Some lawmakers have also noted that the one Republican whose district was greatly altered in the new map, Rep. Garret Graves, supported a GOP opponent of Landry in last fall's governor's race. Graves ...

Incumbent Republican 6th District Congressman Garret Graves didn't seek reelection after the boundaries ... This time Fields ...

Voters face several U.S. House ballot decisions including in Louisiana's newly drawn majority-minority 6th District ...

The headline has been corrected to reflect that Graves is among a list of potential nominees but not listed as the nominee.

Noting the size of the state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal ...