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Louisiana House advances plan to redraw 19th Judicial District into two districts with one at‑large seat
Summary
Representative Freiberg’s bill to redraw the 19th Judicial District from three subdistricts into two — plus one at‑large judge — drew extended floor debate about racial makeup, legal risk from a consent decree and whether related courts should be included. The House passed the bill after a roll‑call vote.
House members passed House Bill 124, a plan by Representative Freyberg to redraw the 19th Judicial District Court from three election sections into two and to add one at‑large judgeship, after an extended floor debate about demographics, legal opinions and germane amendments.
Representative Freyberg, the bill’s author, told the chamber that the change aims to equalize population among the districts after 30 years without redrawing: “We now have a 1.5 [percent deviation] ... the nineteenth JDC is a little different from any other JDCs in the state because we take all of the cases here that are brought against the state or the executive branch,” she said on the floor.
The bill’s nut graf centered on population shifts in…
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