On Wednesday evening, the group of “non-African American” voters who prevailed earlier in the day in their challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map asked the Supreme Court to bypass its normal 32-day waiting period and send a copy of its opinion and order to the lower court immediately, making the decision final. The voters told the justices that the Louisiana Legislature “is considering pushing back” the deadlines for the state’s congressional primaries to allow them “to occur under a remedial map.” If it does shift the deadlines, they argued, “[t]hose 32 days could matter,” because of the short timeframe in which the state would need to revise the map. Louisiana on Thursday afternoon confirmed that it would indeed postpone the state’s primary elections for Congress, which had been scheduled for May 16. In a letter to Scott Harris, the Supreme Court’s clerk, Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga attached an executive order signed on Thursday by the state’s governor, Jeff Landry, that “encouraged” the Louisiana Legislature to adopt a new congressional map in the wake of Louisiana v. Callais and schedule primary elections “as soon as practical … in order to conduct the November 3, 2026 election.” Landry asserted that he had
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