GOP's Landry says Louisiana should be "unshackled" from election litigation.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) said his state should be “unshackled from decades of litigation” following a significant Supreme Court decision involving the Pelican State that limited the scope of a portion of the Voting Rights Act. “Our voters are tired of it. I mean, doesn’t Louisiana deserve some clarity?” Landry said in an interview with CBS News’s Cecilia Vega during a ‘60 Minutes’ segment on Sunday. Late last month, the Supreme Court declared Louisiana’s addition of a second majority-Black congressional district an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The decision, 6-3, weakened a central provision of the Voting Rights Act. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has historically enabled advocacy groups to force the creation of additional majority-minority districts. The recent decision does not eliminate the provision entirely, with Justice Samuel Alito portraying it as an “update” to the framework that has governed Voting Rights Act cases for decades. “Would it concern you if there were no African American representatives from Louisiana in Congress?” CBS News’s Cecilia Vega asked Landry in the “60 Minutes” interview. “That’s a decision that the legislature’s going to make, but I don’t believe that we have to go and draw a district that guarantees us minority representation,” Landry replied. Republican-leaning states in the South have sought to advance the GOP’s goal of maintaining its House majority later this year by redrawing their congressional maps following the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act. Last Thursday, Tennessee Republicans approved a new map, risking the unseating of the state’s only House Democrat in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, which allowed more states to redraw their maps ahead of the midterm elections. Tags Jeff Landry Louisiana redistricting Samuel Alito Supreme Court Voting Rights Act Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.