The upcoming election for a new Louisiana Supreme Court justice may be decided before voters ever reach the polls.

Louisiana voters will hit the polls Nov. 5 to elect a new president, but they'll have a few local choices to make, too. Why it matters: The presidential election will take up most of the airtime and energy,

Hunter, 45, is a first-term judge in the Second Circuit Court of Appeal. Chambers, 43, is the Louisiana Housing Corporation's chief of staff. The two hopefuls were competing with Guidry to become the Supreme Court's second Black justice in a newly redrawn majority-Black judicial district.

The Louisiana State Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, Aug. 20, that Marcus Hunter is ineligible to run for the Associate Justice Supreme Court, 2nd Supreme Court District seat. The justices also declined to hear a case that might have returned Leslie Chambers to the ballot.

The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that two candidates for its District 2 seat failed to meet the standards to qualify for the race, leaving just one person in the Nov. 5 election. Chief Judge John Michael Guidry of the First Circuit Court of Appeal in Baton Rouge is the apparent winner after justices ruled

The inactive voter list is part of Louisiana's voter list maintenance. Voters who are eligible but inactive can update their address to vote in November.

With Tuesday's ruling, First Circuit Court of Appeal Chief Judge John Michael Guidry has been elected to the seat.

Louisiana native Kaitlyn Joshua will speak at the Democratic National Convention Monday to share her story of being denied health care after a miscarriage in the wake of the state's near-total abortion ban.

In the newly formed majority-minority district that stretches from Baton Rouge, to Lafayette, to Shreveport – three major candidates are looking to Washington D.C. to make some changes.

The Louisiana Supreme Court will consider a case over which candidates get to stay in the election for the District 2 seat on the high court.

Louisiana Congressman Troy Carter's wife, Gen. Andree' 'Ana' Carter, was pinned by President Joe Biden with a second star in New Orleans this week.