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Burns, James
The state's Republican Attorney General vowed to appeal, which will take the case to the very conservative Fifth Circuit Courts and Crime By Jon Blistein ‘Indoctrinating Students’: Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Law Goes to Trial Gov. Jeff Landry says the Ten Commandments are integral to the ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, the early GOP front runner in the state’s governor race, attended his first major-televised gubernatorial debate Friday evening, opening the door to political attacks from a crowded ...
State officials pushed back on that assertion. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) said in a statement there’s nothing in state law that stands in the way of doctors providing care that stabilizes and treats emergency conditions for women. ...
Louisiana State Government Executive Branch Governor:Bobby Jindal(R) Lt.Gov:Jay Dardenne(R) Secretary of State: [[]] Treasurer:John Neely Kennedy(DR) switched parties in August 2007. Attorney General:James Caldwell(D) Commissioner of Insurance:Jim Donelon(R) ...
Louisiana, a reliably Republican state in the Bible Belt, is theonly state with such a requirement. Proponents argue that the measure is not solely religious, but has historical significance to the foundation of U.S. law. But an expert witness brought in by the plaintiffs, argued against the...
“I don’t know what happens then,” replied state Sen. Adam Bass, a Republican who co-authored the law. The Associated Press reached out to multiple co-authors of the bill, including Bass and the offices of Attorney General Liz Murrill, Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Cade Brum...
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry testifies before the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on March 30, 2023.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images By garnering more than half of the votes, Landry avoided a runoff under the state's ...
[ing] the state’s ability to enforce its laws”…Alejandra Caraballo, a civil rights attorney…who shared the memo on [Twitter], wrote…”if the language used in this directive is taken at face value, any trans person driving with a changed gender marker on their drivers license could be...