FILE - Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., speaks at a news conference after the House passed the debt ceiling bill, May 31, 2023, at the Capitol in Washington. Louisiana Sen. Cleo Fields, who served in Congress in the 1990s and is currently a state senator, has declared his candidacy for a new majority-Black congressional district created in January by the Legislature. The new map greatly alters the district currently represented by Graves. Opponents of the new map are challenging it in federal court, calling it a "racial gerrymander." (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
FILE - Democratic Louisiana Sen. Cleo Fields speaks during the swearing in of the state Legislature, Jan. 8, 2024, in Baton Rouge, La. Fields, who served in Congress in the 1990s and is currently a state senator, has declared his candidacy for a new majority-Black congressional district created in January by the Legislature. The new map greatly alters the district currently represented by U.S. Rep. Garret Graves. Opponents of the new map are challenging it in federal court, calling it a "racial gerrymander." (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, Pool, File)