The Republican governor of Louisiana is jumping on the Supreme Court’s evisceration of voting rights to cancel the state’s upcoming primary elections to help avert a humiliating defeat for Donald Trump at the midterms.
The high court ruled 6-3 along partisan lines on Wednesday to strike down Louisiana’s voting map, with the conservative majority finding that lawmakers had unlawfully factored in race when creating a new majority-Black district in the state.
The decision prompted a quick response from Gov. Jeff Landry, who is determined to redraw the voting maps to grab his party another seat in Congress.
It said Landry, a MAGA favorite who also serves as Trump’s envoy to Greenland, told House Republican candidates he is planning to suspend next month’s primary elections in order to give state lawmakers enough time to pass a new congressional map, according to two people with knowledge of the calls.
The primaries are currently scheduled for May 16. People familiar with the plans said that Landry’s announcement could come as early as Friday, one day before early voting was set to begin.
My family is from Mississippi and Louisiana, two states at the bottom or near the bottom of most things you can measure. Except things like racism.
This doesn’t surprise me at all.
Not only is this racism-gone-wild, but it’s also corrupt politics, and Louisiana has to be one of the most corrupt places in the US.
It’s a bummer. I grew up loving a lot about both states, but I’ve had to let them go because they are lost causes.