La. Senate advances plan to dissolve majority-Black congressional district after Supreme Court decision – One America News Network

May 13, 2026 Katherine Mosack US 0

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OAN Staff Katherine Mosack
10:29 AM – Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Republican lawmakers in Louisiana have advanced a plan to eliminate one of two majority-Black congressional districts after a Supreme Court ruling struck down the state’s map as a racial gerrymander.

A state Senate committee held a vote after nearly 10 hours of testimony that began on Tuesday evening and ended at 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday. The GOP succeeded in a 4-3 vote to approve Senate Bill 121 by State Senator Jay Morris (R-La.), which strikes the offending district, but keeps one other majority-Black district that spans Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Morris said that his bill was based on the state’s map from 2022.

Another proposal, Senate Bill 407, by State Senator Ed Price (D-La.), proposed four majority-White districts and two “opportunity districts that, according to Price, would give Black voters a chance to elect their own candidates. This did not receive enough votes to advance, however.

Two weeks before the vote, the Supreme Court declared that the state’s existing district lines constituted an illegal racial gerrymander in a 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais.

Louisiana currently has six House districts. Without the second majority-Black district, the map would likely include five Republican districts and one Democrat district.

“This 5-1 map is a political power grab,” Senator Sam Jenkins (D-La.) said.

The full Louisiana Senate is expected to vote on the bill on Thursday, before sending it to a House committee for a vote. If approved by both chambers of the state legislature, it goes to Governor Jeff Landry (R-La.).

Landry said that a new map must be approved before the midterm elections in November, which includes several U.S. House races. In late April, he suspended the state’s primary elections due to an “electoral emergency” to allow the legislature time to produce a new map.

“Allowing elections to proceed under an unconstitutional map would undermine the integrity of our system and violate the rights of our voters,” Landry said in a statement in light of the high court’s decision.

BREAKING — In a late-night vote, Louisiana Republicans have advanced a new congressional map out of committee that would eliminate one of the state’s Democratic-leaning districts.

The map now heads to the Senate floor for a full vote.

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