Louisiana lawmakers on Friday approved a new congressional map that could allow Republicans to flip one of the state's two Democratic-held House seats in the 2026 midterms. The Louisiana Senate gave final approval to a bill with the new map after much dissent from Democrats. "Y'all, at the beginning of this process, I would have said that we are building a house on a broken foundation. Now, it feels more like quicksand, because we're in 2026 going into a map that we know is flawed, that we know is going to get struck down," state Sen. Royce Duplessis, a Democrat, said on the Senate floor. State Sen. Jay Morris, a Republican, defended the map ahead of the final vote. "I think we have a map here that meets all the traditional redistricting criteria. It's not racially gerrymandered. ... I think it broadly allows for representation for each region of the state, and it's very fair, and we should approve it," Morris said. The new map comes weeks after U.S.…