BATON ROUGE, La. (KALB) - The Louisiana Legislature convened on Oct. 23, beginning its first, and potentially only, special session for the year.

Governor Jeff Landry called for the session last week, with the goal of considering the election code, dates, deadlines and plans for the 2026 election cycle.

According to State House Speaker Pro Tempore Mike Johnson, this is in anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling over Louisiana’s congressional maps in the Louisiana v. Callais case.

“We need to have time after that to be able to draw good maps and for elections to be held for next fall,” he said. “This is done in anticipation of that, because if we waited for the court and then tried to move the dates, it would be beyond the qualifying and it would create a problem.”

Earlier th

See Full Page