What’s amazing to me is how fast they blocked the elections because the maps were found “illegal”.
Almost like it was timed pretty perfectly.
Landry has strategically set himself up to have way too much power, and basically destroyed any checks and balances within the state of Louisiana.
On the one hand, it is a blatantly antidemocratic move to do something like this so close to the election, especially with early voting starting . On the other, nobody (with the exception of the federal government, and let’s face it, we know what side they’re on with Trump in the White House) can stop the kingfish from doing what he wants to do in his own pond.
Doing this so close to the election means that the burden of the ticking clock is actually placed on anybody figuring out how to challenge him. And even if they somehow do successfully figure out how to stop him from cancelling the elections the day of (May 16th), undoubtedly he will have already done some significant damage either by interfering with early voting or just spreading misinformation.
This is just the most egregious thing he’s done so far to blatantly interfere with elections and democracy. Louisiana just removed an existing elected position within New Orleans at Landry’s behest, after the candidate was sworn in to office. Before doing that it was a statewide voter purge from the ballots, and willingly agreeing to hand over voter registration data to the DOJ.
Almost like it was timed pretty perfectly.
Landry has strategically set himself up to have way too much power, and basically destroyed any checks and balances within the state of Louisiana.
On the one hand, it is a blatantly antidemocratic move to do something like this so close to the election, especially with early voting starting . On the other, nobody (with the exception of the federal government, and let’s face it, we know what side they’re on with Trump in the White House) can stop the kingfish from doing what he wants to do in his own pond.
Doing this so close to the election means that the burden of the ticking clock is actually placed on anybody figuring out how to challenge him. And even if they somehow do successfully figure out how to stop him from cancelling the elections the day of (May 16th), undoubtedly he will have already done some significant damage either by interfering with early voting or just spreading misinformation.
This is just the most egregious thing he’s done so far to blatantly interfere with elections and democracy. Louisiana just removed an existing elected position within New Orleans at Landry’s behest, after the candidate was sworn in to office. Before doing that it was a statewide voter purge from the ballots, and willingly agreeing to hand over voter registration data to the DOJ.