BATON ROUGE, LA – Following the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Louisiana’s latest congressional map, a senior Democratic official acknowledged this week that the version submitted to lawmakers was actually a “refined draft” of an earlier design drawn by his 5-year-old niece identified only as Katie.
“What the public saw was the cleaned-up version,” the official said. “We straightened a few lines, adjusted some curves, and made it look a little more presentable. But the core concept was entirely hers.”
Sources say the original map, sketched in crayon on a hand drawn image of the state, featured several districts that appeared to double back on themselves. Staffers reportedly spent days translating the drawing into something they described as “legally presentable, but still true to the vision.”
“We didn’t want to lose the authenticity,” one aide explained. “You start overthinking it, and suddenly it just looks like every other map that gets thrown out.”
The official defended the process, arguing that traditional mapmaking has repeatedly failed to hold up in court. “At this point, we’re experimenting,” he said. “And honestly, her version had just as much logic as anything we’ve tried.”
According to sources, the niece remains “proud of her work” and has already offered notes for the next redraw, including a suggestion to “make the squiggly parts even bigger.”
