Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) gave final approval to a congressional map that creates a court-ordered second majority-black district and likely costs Republicans one of its five seats in the Louisiana legislature.

The new map protects the partisan lean of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s (R-LA) districts, but reshapes Rep. Garret Graves’s (R-LA) district to become the state’s second black-majority district. Landry signed the bill on Monday and argued that the legislature was keeping the map in its control, rather than being drawn by a court.

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