With the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Louisiana’s congressional map, legislative leaders say they will approve a new map before the session is required to end on June 1st. Four Republicans and two Democrats currently make up Louisiana’s U.S. House delegation. LaPolitics-dot-com Publisher Jeremy Alford says Wednesday’s historic Supreme Court ruling gives legislative leaders a chance to pass a map that would add to the number of Republicans in the U.S. House.
Governor Landry has issued an executive order that has suspended the U-S House elections as a result of this week’s Supreme Court Decision. Loyola University law professor Dane Ciolino says usually the does not respond that fast to a ruling from the nation’s highest court…
Cut 5 (12) “….than 100 years”
A new poll from Emerson College and KLFY-TV on the U-S Senate Republican primary shows John Fleming and Julia Letlow are statistically tied, while Bill Cassidy trails his challengers by a few percentage points. ULM political science professor Pearson Cross says in the survey of 500 likely Republican primary voters, nearly half of them have an unfavorable view of Cassidy…
The Louisiana Lottery reports there are eleven new millionaires in the Bayou State as result of Wednesday’s Powerball drawing. Spokesperson Chrisyln Maher says six people won one million dollars with Powerball match-5 winning tickets and five people won two-million with Powerball match-5, plus the Power play…
cut 11 (10) “…it was two”