The Supreme Court’s decision last week invalidating Louisiana’s congressional map has spawned a fast-moving set of court fights over the state’s ongoing primary, as Gov. Jeff Landry seeks to halt the ongoing primaries to draw a new congressional map.
The Supreme Court ruled Louisiana should not have been forced to draw a congressional map with a second Black-majority district to comply with the Voting Rights Act. The following day, Landry postponed his state’s May 16 primaries for the House, saying in part that elections should not proceed under an unconstitutional map.
Voters have challenged Landry’s move in both state and federal court, as a different group of voters who brought the Supreme Court case, Louisiana v. Callais, asks the justices to speed up typically perfunctory actions after a decision.
