While they wait for Gov. Jeff Landry to potentially call a legislative special session, organizers of the Louisiana Book Festival are preparing to move programming out of the State Capitol.

"We don't want to get caught flat-footed," Kevin Calbert, a festival spokesperson said. "So we're making alternate adjustments right now, but it's not going to affect the festival experience."

Landry told lawmakers two months ago he planned to call a special session starting Oct. 23, so they could pass a new congressional map in the aftermath of a key Supreme Court hearing Wednesday. Justices will hear a challenge to Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the law that was cited in ordering Louisiana to draw two majority-Black congressional districts.

That idea appears to have been dropped, with leg

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