Louisiana plans to postpone U.S. House primaries in order to allow time for lawmakers to redraw and pass a new congressional map.
Gov. Jeff Landry (R-La.) announced the suspension on April 30, just a day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that race could not be a factor when drawing boundaries for electoral districts.
The decision by the Supreme Court blocked an electoral map that gave Louisiana a second black-majority U.S. congressional district.
Landry and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill released a joint statement, saying, “Yesterday’s historic Supreme Court victory for Louisiana has an immediate consequence for the State.”…