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.
Once again, to anyone who has ever said I was overreacting about this term, kindly fuck yourself sideways.
Nothing says democracy quite like suspending elections to redraw maps just to win an extra seat in Congress.
Flee the south and deep red states. They will not change and they are literally gearing up to do their version of the Handmaids Tale. And black and other minorities, you will be slaves. I’m not kidding, this is what they are going to do now.
to do their version of the Handmaids Tale
Other way around. Handmaid’s Tale drew some of its inspiration from those states, mainly the historical slavery part.
Why on earth does Louisiana give that kind of power to the governor? Shouldn’t be possible to cancel elections of any kind, unless there is civil war in the state.
Or is this another instance of a republican see what their stacked courts will let them get away with?
This guy has strategically changed the law in Louisiana, starting over a decade ago when he was AG. Republicans in the Louisiana House and Senate introduce and pass laws at his behest that have allowed him pretty much unchecked power.
One of the first things he did when he took office was fire a tenured law professor bc he made fun of him in one of his law classes.
Once he was accused of an ethics violation, so he just completely changed the laws about who sat on the state ethics board and term limits, and then restaffed the board so it was composed of his own friends. Surprisingly the board looked into it and determined there was no ethics violation.
Louisiana is the anus of the USA.
