After the Senate gave its final legislative passage of the new congressional map, the Public Affairs Research Council issued new commentary on the map that Governor Landry quickly signed into law. Research Director Melinda Deslatte says the new map essentially undoes the work of the legislature in 2024, when Landry called them into a special session just after taking office to redraw the map to comply with a judge’s order to create a second majority-Black district.
“They’ve gone back to a sixth district that looks similar to the one that had previously been held by Garrett Graves, who chose not to run when they redrew the map in 2024,” Deslatte explained.
Deslatte says now that the map has been signed into law, the next stop will very likely once again be the courts.
“Everyone on both sides of the debate is very confident there will be another round of litigation over whether or not this map stands,” Deslatte said.
Deslatte says a fair congressional map is something that precisely no one at the Capitol can agree on, and the battle has actually been going on for many years, even before the 2022 drawing of the map that started the chain of events that has led us to this point.
“Everybody has been focused on this map and has had disagreements over this map. And the disagreements over redistricting always end up in court,” Deslatte noted.
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