May 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the voting rights case Louisiana vs. Callais has added a new chapter in an ongoing redistricting battle across the country.
The high court ruled on April 29 against a majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana, ordering that it was unconstitutionally drawn because race was used as a basis for redistricting. It has already set off a series of state-level moves that seek to immediately reshape elections, starting in Louisiana, where Gov. Jeff Landry suspended an election that had already begun.
The day after the ruling was handed down, Landry ordered that the state's primary elections be suspended, despite early votes already being cast. The primary elections were scheduled for May 16.
Thousands of early votes in those primaries, as many as 45,000, will be discarded, Landry said.
"It's not my fault," Landry said in an interview on 60 Minutes. "If anybody has a grievance, take it to the United States Supreme Court."
