The special session gets underway Monday afternoon for lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional district map after the current six-district map with one majority Black district was ruled unconstitutional because the courts believe there should be two majority Black districts. LA-Politics-dot-com publisher Jeremy Alford said it’s anybody’s guess what will happen this time around.
“The Republican-led legislature last term refused to do this. We’re not sure yet whether lawmakers will refuse to do this or not,” said Alford.
During the brief session scheduled to end a week from tomorrow, lawmakers will also, at the request of the State Supreme Court, redraw the state’s judicial districts, which Alford said a second Black majority district could be added to that map as well.
“Exactly what that looks like we don’t know, we didn’t expect that to be on the call, but it is. And then there is really just a handful of other items that few people beyond the Landry administration know what to make of,” said Alford.
Governor Landry issued a proclamation that outlined twelve additional items for lawmakers to debate during the special session. Alford said among them is changing from open primaries to closed party primaries elections.
“There’s so much on the special session call that you wonder if Democrats aren’t thinking that maybe they should start filing a bunch of bills to gum up the works,” said Alford.
The topics on Landry’s agenda are all related to elections, ranging from campaign finances to amendments to the state code related to the implementation of elections.
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