Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry and state Attorney General Liz Murrill announced Thursday that the state's congressional primary election, scheduled for mid-May, would be suspended after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map as unconstitutional. The suspension gives state lawmakers time to draw a new map aimed at ousting at least one, if not two, Black Democrats.

President Donald Trump thanked Landry on Truth Social for moving quickly to address the unconstitutionality of the map. U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNN that states with unconstitutional maps should consider redrawing them before the midterm elections.

The Supreme Court ruling was followed by activity in several other states. The Florida Legislature approved a new map hours after the decision. Eight states — Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah, Florida, California and Virginia — have enacted new congressional maps since the census outside the regular decennial cycle. California and Virginia have enacted new maps favorable to Democrats.

Alabama, Georgia, Missouri and Tennessee are Republican-led states with upcoming primaries where lawmakers could still draw new electoral maps. Some Georgia Republicans, including Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones, called for new maps to be drawn in response to the court's decision. Candidates in Georgia's congressional districts qualified under the current district boundaries last month, and voting has already started for the May primaries.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she would work with the state legislature to change New York's redistricting process. New York currently uses a commission system to draw congressional maps, limiting opportunities for partisan gerrymandering.

Representative Terri Sewell criticized the Supreme Court's decision. "It values partisan politics over discrimination," Sewell said. She said the ruling would push states in both parties toward more aggressive map-drawing. "To the extent it's urging, it's inviting red states to totally take away all of the Democratic seats and be totally red, it also encourages blue states to do exactly the same," she said.