Voting rights groups sue to block Louisiana from suspending primary elections

State’s governor has ordered congressional primary halted until state can redraw districts and dilute Black vote

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit on behalf of https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/louisiana">Louisiana voting rights groups on Friday, asking a state court to block the state’s governor, Jeff Landry, and secretary of state, Nancy Landry, from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/states-redistricting-maps-voting-rights-act">suspending congressional elections.

Landry suspended the state’s congressional primary election on Thursday – even after early voting had begun – to enact new districts for the 2026 election.

The move came after the supreme court’s 6-3 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/supreme-court-louisiana-congressional-map-case-ruling">decision in the Louisiana v Callais case on Wednesday, which invalidated swaths of the https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/01/state-voting-rights-acts-supreme-court-ruling">Voting Rights Act and declared that a Louisiana congressional district with a majority-nonwhite voting population violated equal protection provisions of the US constitution.