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BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) -- Jamie Davis secured an endorsement from former Gov. John Bel Edwards as he vies for the Louisiana U.S. Senate seat in the November election. He throws his support behind Davis, whom he described as a leader…
Here is Scotlandville, which was once its own unincorporated town but is now part of Baton Rouge. It’s a nearly all Black community of 10,000 people that has been, for the second time, shuffled around on the state’s congressional map to…
In the ruling's immediate aftermath, Louisiana lawmakers, already in session, began looking at how to redraw their congressional districts, the report noted. Gov. Jeff Landry then postponed the state's May 16 congressional primary to give legislators time to approve new district…