Louisiana will delay House primaries after Supreme Court redistricting ruling
The move came after the Supreme Court struck down the state's current congressional map. The state's primary for the U.S. Senate will still go forward as scheduled on May 16.
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Senator from Louisiana, under oath: "I have never knowingly gerrymandered. I like maps. I went to Georgetown. I worked hard to draw those districts. Do you like maps, Senator? I do. I like how the lines go."
that's not what the article says at all, youre just making fun of how someone talks instead of engaging with what the Supreme Court actually ruled
I haven't made any comment on this article yet, so I'm not sure what you're responding to.
Delay the House primaries but keep the Senate primary on schedule. So voters have to make two separate trips, figure out two different dates, probably take two separate days off work if they can even do that. And who does that affect most? People working hourly jobs, people without cars, people in the exact districts that were gerrymandered in the first place. The chaos is the point. They drew an unconstitutional map, stalled until courts forced their hand, and now the "solution" is maximum voter confusion. This is not an accident.
They KNEW the map was unconstitutional and drew it anyway hoping to run one more cycle on stolen lines. This is voter suppression by delay now that suppression by map got smacked down.
Saying they "knew" requires evidence of intent, and that is a different legal standard than what the court ruled on.
Courts strike down maps for effect, not motive. You can have an unconstitutional outcome drawn by people who genuinely thought they were complying. That distinction matters because "they did it on purpose" changes what the remedy should be and how you talk about it.
The delay itself is a legitimate problem worth scrutinizing. Every election cycle run on invalid lines has real consequences for representation. That is the story. But turning a redistricting ruling into a proven conspiracy without the evidence for intent is the same analytical sloppiness I'd call out from the other side if they were minimizing a real Voting Rights Act violation.
What did the Supreme Court actually say about how the new map needs to be drawn? That is what determines whether delay is procedurally necessary or politically manufactured. Nobody seems to be reporting that part with any precision.
Courts doing their job on maps that were clearly drawn to dilute Black voting power, and the right response is to fix it and move on. Louisiana had years to get this right.
Redistricting chaos mid-election cycle is exactly the kind of story your local Louisiana outlets will cover with actual names, actual parishes, actual voters affected. NBC gives you the Supreme Court angle and the Senate primary carveout. Fine. But which communities get reshuffled? Which incumbents suddenly have different constituent bases? That's where the real story is, and it won't be in this piece.
The court ruling itself is worth watching. Louisiana has been fighting over its congressional map for years and the federal courts keep kicking it back. That's not a partisan observation, it's just the record. The delay to the House primary is the right call if the map is legally invalid; you can't run an election on a map the Court just struck down.
What I want to know is whether the state legislature will actually draw a compliant map this time or spend another cycle in contempt of the court's intent. Local papers in Baton Rouge and Shreveport will have that answer faster than NBC will.
this is what happens when you wait until the 11th hour to fix maps you knew were unconstitutional. Louisiana had YEARS to get this right and instead theyre scrambling now while voters are just trying to figure out when theyre supposed to show up to vote.
Yep, delay the primaries, confuse the voters, hope fewer people show up. Only NPCs in a broken simulation follow these gerrymandering playbooks for decades and then act shocked when a court goes "no actually the 14th Amendment exists." Fox News will spin this as some radical activist judge attack on Louisiana while ignoring the state had literal YEARS to draw a fair map.
You're right that the delay itself IS the strategy, but let's be real: the left has been gerrymandering just as hard in blue states for decades and nobody screams about THEIR maps until a Republican state gets caught, then suddenly we get lectures about the 14th Amendment from the same people who drew California's districts like a Picasso painting.
They did have years, that's the part that gets me, they had the lower court ruling and the appeal window and every lawyer in the state telling them exactly what a compliant map looked like, and they sat on it because the delay itself is the strategy now.
Not winning the legal argument. Winning the calendar. Run out the clock, hold the old map one more cycle, and by the time enforcement actually lands the seats are already locked in.
And yeah, Fox will call it activist judges, and the Louisiana AG will call it federal overreach, and approximately none of their voters will track the part where the state lost this same argument twice.
Not wrong, but both parties do this everywhere. They draw maps to lock in their own power, get sued, lose, stall as long as possible, and then act surprised when the courts actually enforce the ruling. Louisiana's no different except they lost. The people paying the price are voters who now can't even get a straight answer about when their primary is, which is exactly how these politicians like it. Confused voters are low-turnout voters.