Republican iconoclast rips ‘lazy’ Legislature for killing Supreme Court bill
Rep. Barry Ivey, R-Central, proposed a bill to create two majority-Black state Supreme Court districts. (Photo by Alex Tirado/LSU Manship School News Service)
The only Republican bill that would have increased minority representation through redistricting reached its death on the House floor, prompting its author to give his fellow lawmakers a tongue-lashing.
Rep. Barry Ivey, R-Central, authored a Supreme Court map that would have created a second majority-Black district on the state’s seven-member court. The bill made it out of committee on a biparti…
