With four weeks to go in the legislative session, state lawmakers are expected to begin this week the public debate on drawing up a new Congressional district map. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the current map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. At issue is the sixth district, which in 2024 was created as the state’s second major minority district and Democrat Cleo Fields represents it. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says not only does the sixth district’s boundaries need to be changed, several others need to be redrawn too.
A federal judge on Sunday granted a temporary restraining order, blocking a new Louisiana law that would have eliminated the Orleans Parish criminal clerk of court office, allowing clerk-elect Calvin Duncan to take office as scheduled Monday. U.S. District Court Judge John deGravelles ruled the new law unconstitutional. Next steps will be determined later today.
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State lawmakers have given final approval to a one-point-five billion dollar plan for coastal protection and restoration which includes a 94-mile land bridge from Port Sulphur in Plaquemines Parish to Terrebonne Parish and a project that will divert fresh water from the Mississippi River into the second-largest coastal forest remaining in Louisiana. Restore the Mississippi River Delta is still upset that the Landry administration cancelled the Mid-Barataria and Mid-Breton Sediment diversion projects. And Amanda Moore, with the National Wildlife Federation and says the state already spent nearly 700-million dollars in Deepwater Horizon funds on these two large diversions…
Cut 12 (12) “…restore the coast.”
But Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Chairman Gordon owever Dove says you get a better bang for your buck with land bridges…