Louisiana governor weighs suspending House primaries after Supreme Court ruling

Voters may be disenfranchised if primary elections are suspended without alternative mechanisms to select candidates.

A Supreme Court decision striking down Louisiana's congressional map as a violation of voting rights has set the state's political machinery into motion, forcing its governor and Republican leadership to confront an uncomfortable question: when the courts redraw the rules, who decides how democracy continues? The choice now before Louisiana — whether to redesign its districts under judicial oversight or to cancel primary elections altogether — is less a logistical problem than a moral one, touching the oldest tension in representative government between the convenience of those in power and th

Louisiana governor weighs suspending House primaries after Supreme Court ruling

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