Morning Digest: Why a GOP congressman might challenge the GOP's new map

_{The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.}

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● LA-06: The plaintiffs who challenged Louisiana's congressional map for allegedly violating the Voting Rights Act seem pretty happy with the replacement plan the state's GOP-dominated legislature just passed, but the Republican congressman who was forced to walk the plank is hinting that the battle may continue.

Rep. Garret Graves saw his district dismantled and replaced with a completely different alternative that he could never win. But Graves could instead run against a fellow incumbent—or he could try to block the new map in court by convincing a panel of federal judges it doesn't pass legal muster.

Read more on how Graves could muck with everyone's plans—including which House Republican he'd be most likely to take on—in David Nir's new piece at Daily Kos Elections.