Texas officials had asked the Supreme Court to revive the map, which was designed to help Trump's party keep control of Congress in midterm elections.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas on Friday asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to be allowed to use a congressional ...

Gov. Jeff Landry needed a new commissioner of Alcohol and Tobacco Control. He turned to a Democratic legislator for the job.

Depending on the timing, a Supreme Court ruling that weakens Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination may ...

New Orleans voters officially tapped "jailhouse lawyer" Calvin Duncan as their new Criminal District Clerk of Court in ...

Calvin Duncan, a New Orleans man who spent more than three decades behind bars before his murder conviction was overturned, ...

A New Orleans man who spent three decades in prison before his murder conviction was vacated won election Saturday to serve as the city’s chief criminal court record keeper, despite the state ...

SHE SAID, ALL RIGHT, OTHER RESULTS NOW TO GET TO THE ORLEANS PARISH CLERK OF CRIMINAL COURT APPEARS TO BE REALLY DECISIVELY ...

WASHINGTON — How did Proposition 50, the California redistricting ballot measure, pass handily this week when Golden State voters initially disapproved of the measure? “There were any number of people ...