Louisiana suspends House primaries for May 16 elections

Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry said Thursday that the authorities volition suspend the House primaries for the upcoming elections connected May 16 successful the aftermath of the Supreme Court striking down the state's Congressional map.

Landry said that portion the U.S. House races volition stay connected voters' ballots, "any votes formed successful those races volition not beryllium counted."

"Pursuant to 18:401.1(B), I person certified the exigency successful airy of the Supreme Court ruling. This is simply a mandatory measurement anterior to the Governor issuing an enforcement bid suspending the upcoming Louisiana U.S. House races," Landry said successful a connection connected societal media. 

The different races, including the Senate primaries, are acceptable to spell connected arsenic planned, Landry said. She said her bureau volition station noises astatine aboriginal voting sites. 

The Supreme Court connected Wednesday upheld a little tribunal ruling that recovered Louisiana mapmakers relied excessively heavy connected contention erstwhile they redrew the state's voting boundaries to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court's blimpish bulk recovered that compliance with Section 2 could not warrant the state's usage of contention successful redrawing its House territory lines.

This is simply a breaking story. It volition beryllium updated. 

Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.