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La. leaders postpone House elections Move comes in wake of Supreme Court map ruling BY TYLER BRIDGES Staff writer
In a dramatic move with statewide ramifications, Gov. Jeff Landry on Thursday postponed Louisiana’s upcoming elections for the U.S. House, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana’s congressional map is an illegal racial gerrymander. Landry, who has the authority under state law to change the election schedule in case of an “emergency,” moved quickly because absentee ballot voting has already begun for the May 16 primary election and early voting begins on Saturday. Lawmakers are planning
INSIDE ä N.O. officials react to Supreme Court map ruling. Page 10A ä State officials say congressional map can’t be used. Page 14A for the House races to take place later this year, only after the Legislature and governor have redrawn the map for the six congressional districts. The election plans are likely to cause chaos for voters and election officials because Landry and legislative leaders are keeping the existing May 16 primary schedule for other races,
most notably the hotly contested Senate election in which Sen. Bill Cassidy is facing a tough challenge from U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow and state Treasurer John Fleming. The five constitutional amendments scheduled for May 16 also would continue as planned, according to sources. So would a heated state Supreme Court race on the northshore, two Public Service Commission races — one in northwest Louisiana and the other to represent the suburban districts around New Orleans — a seat on the Board of Elementary and Secondary
STAFF FILE PHOTO BY JOHN BALLANCE
Gov. Jeff Landry said Thursday that ‘allowing elections to proceed under an unconstitutional map would undermine the integrity of our system and violate the rights of our ä See ELECTIONS, page 14A voters.’
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Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson heads to court on Thursday.
Hutson appears in court
Sheriff faces charges from probe in wake of jailbreak BY MATT BRUCE Staff writer
It’s been a wrenching week for outgoing Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson. On Tuesday, she delivered an emotional farewell address at the Orleans Justice Center, marking some of the challenges she faced during her four-year term as the parish’s first African-American woman sheriff. The next day, Hutson surrendered on 30 felony charges from an indictment stemming from an investigation that began after 10 inmates escaped from the Orleans Justice Center on May 16. And on Thursday, Hutson made her first court appearance on the charges. She issued her first statement in response, vowing to “aggressively fight” them. And details began to emerge on the specifics of the allegations. An arrest warrant affidavit obtained by WVUE-TV alleges that Hutson failed to supervise the jail even after several warnings from federal consent decree monitors. The report detailed security
ä See HUTSON, page 10A
WEATHER HIGH 74 LOW 60 PAGE 8B
STAFF PHOTOS BY DAVID GRUNFELD
New Orleans Jazz Fest producer/director Quint Davis thanks the crowd for sticking around at the end of Widespread Panic’s set on the main Festival Stage on Thursday.
Schedule shuffled, ends early due to threatening weather Thursday was a day of improvising for the 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and not just on stage. With rains threatening the Fair Grounds, producers scrambled Thursday’s schedule, canceling some artists Keith and moving others Spera earlier in the day. They released a revised version of Thursday’s scheduling cubes at 12:30 p.m. that indicated the music would go as late as 5 p.m. on some stages, not the usual 7.
Widespread Panic vocalist and rhythm guitarist John ‘JB’ Bell performs with the band on Thursday. But as the forecast for late afternoon worsened, they pulled the plug on the music even earlier than that. Right after Lake Street Dive singer Rachel Price finished singing “Good Kisser” at the Shell Gentilly Stage at 3:30 p.m., an unwelcome message appeared on the stage video screens: “Today’s Festival has ended.
MORE @ JAZZ FEST INSIDE ä More photos. Pages 1B, 3B ä Friday’s cubes. Page 3D
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Thank you and get home safely. See you tomorrow!” On the revised cubes, Lake Street Dive had been scheduled to end at 3:50 p.m. News that the festival was over hadn’t yet reached the members of Widespread Panic. As the rest of the fest’s stages went dark and
ä See JAZZ FEST, page 8A
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