Executive order halts Congressional races

Published: April 30, 2026

By: Sheridan White, Courtney Bell and Avery White, LSU Manship School News Service

BATON ROUGE – Gov. Jeff Landry declared a state of emergency Thursday to temporarily suspend this year’s congressional elections in Louisiana in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that maps of the state’s six districts are unconstitutional.

Landry said that the ruling had enjoined the state from going ahead with the election without drawing new maps.

“Accordingly, the State is currently enjoined from carrying out congressional elections under the current map,” Landry and state Atty. Gen. Liz Murrill said in the statement.

But Peter Robins-Brown, the executive director of Louisiana Progress, a progressive advocacy group that has worked on redistricting issues in Louisiana in recent years, disagreed that the state is legally bound to changing the maps during this election cycle.

“There wasn’t anything in the ruling that said these maps are invalid for this election and needed to be changed before it could happen,” Robins-Brown said.