<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/new-orleans" rel="" target="" title="US state of Louisiana"><span>US state of Louisiana</span></a><span> has suspended </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/us-election" rel="" target="" title="voting in an election due to begin tomorrow"><span>voting in an election due to begin tomorrow</span></a><span> in order to redraw districts to elect another Republican member of Congress.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The primary election for House of Representatives races has been suspended, Secretary of State Nancy Landry announced.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The move comes as the state government looks to redraw the boundaries of the districts to draw a black Democrat out of his seat.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-gold-card-nicki-minaj-one-person-bought-visa-usa-news/33b13cad-672e-432f-bc35-9f71d00a0324"><strong><span>Only one person has bought into Donald Trump's million-dollar idea</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump praised the governor for the move, which will give Republicans an extra seat in Congress.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Thank you to the Great Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, for his leadership on the very important Callais case, and for moving so quickly to fix the Unconstitutionality of Louisiana's Congressional Maps," Trump wrote on Truth Social.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He has shown tremendous Vision, Strength, and Leadership."</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/louisiana-election-suspended-redraw-districts-white-black-supreme-court-voting-rights-act/ce7d3f84-3277-4be5-8613-53ed911cccf8" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Jeff Landry and Nancy Landry are not related.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In Louisiana, like in many US states, state politicians draw the electoral maps, usually to benefit their own party.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A redrawing of the Louisiana map could make for an all-white delegation in Congress in a state where black voters account for 31 per cent of the population.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/white-house-correspondents-dinner-gunman-surveillance-footage/59bbd458-8843-4fe5-bad7-d5beff541d46"><strong><span>Surveillance footage shows gunman charging through officers</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump said he was now pushing for a redraw of the map in Tennessee.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I had a very good conversation with Governor Bill Lee, of Tennessee, this morning, wherein he stated that he would work hard to correct the unconstitutional flaw in the Congressional Maps of the Great State of Tennessee," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This should give us one extra seat, and help Save our Country from the Radical Left Democrats, and their Country destroying Policies of High Tax, Open Borders, Transgender Mutilization (sic), Defunding the Police, ICE, and Border Patrol, No Voter ID, Soft on Crime, and so much more."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The moves come after the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/supreme-court-vra-voting-rights-act-usa-donald-trump-us-election-news/fb8c4308-6a34-4f36-aa67-81a4688830c7" rel="" target="" title="US Supreme Court overturned a law which has shaped elections for decades"><span>US Supreme Court overturned a law which has shaped elections for decades</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-face-passport-signature-washington-politics-usa-news/9d83d8e2-6746-4a04-bab3-a9e182b1f8c2"><strong><span>Trump's face, golden signature to be included on US passports</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In response to southern states deliberately drawing maps designed to deny black politicians being elected, a 1965 law required districts to be drawn to ensure minority representation.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But much of that law was struck down in a 6-3 decision yesterday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>As a consequence, a series of southern states are redrawing their maps to ensure as few districts as possible have a majority of non-white voters in them.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In Alabama, senior Republicans are today pushing to draw the state's two black representatives out of their seats.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>And in Florida, a map was passed yesterday that would deliberately split a heavily Puerto Rican district into several white-majority districts.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-gold-statue-cryptocurrency-doral-florida-golf-course-usa-politics-news/86757205-191c-4eab-b021-8cd9038da89f"><strong><span>Giant golden statue of Trump installed at his Florida golf course</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Before the Voting Rights Act, no black person had been elected to Congress for close to a century in the Deep South, despite black people accounting for a majority of the population in many of those states.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In the US south, white voters overwhelmingly vote for Republicans and black voters overwhelmingly back Democrats.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/supreme-court-vra-voting-rights-act-usa-donald-trump-us-election-news/fb8c4308-6a34-4f36-aa67-81a4688830c7" rel="" target="" title="Trump celebrates Supreme Court decision that could sway elections"><strong><span>Trump celebrates Supreme Court decision that could sway elections</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><em><span>NEVER MISS A STORY:</span></em></strong><span> 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