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.
Our leadership, both DNC and especially republican, has failed us as a people. Capitalism has failed us. It’s a disgusting look in the mirror, but we have to realize this is the USA working exactly as intended. Capitalism in America, brought on by genocide and slaughter, was always intended to go this way. We are in 1930s capitalist Germany, for all intents and purposes. When shit hits the fan, and I’m starting to believe it really will, it’ll be up to us and our neighbors to pick up the pieces together. The DNC has abandoned the people in favor of right wing Neo liberal imperialism abroad and at home. It’s time to abandon them so we can attack fascism at its roots, not just the emboldened Trump admin. It goes way deeper than that, unfortunately.