As Louisiana Legislature moves to push back election dates, Democrats raise more objections

Democrats in the Louisiana Legislature on Friday continued to press Republicans on their plan to delay Louisiana’s spring primary elections by a month, as the fate of the state’s congressional map hangs in the balance.

On the second day of a special legislative session , the House and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced two bills that would push all of Louisiana’s April 18 elections back to May 16.

Rep. Beau Beaullieu, the New Iberia Republican who sponsored those bills and is a leading figure in the session, said the state is preparing for the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court could soon issue a ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, a nationally watched redistricting case .

There’s a chance that the justices could rule the state’s current congressional voting map invalid.

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