WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday lifted its hold on a Louisiana political remap case, increasing the likelihood that the Republican-dominated state will have to redraw boundary lines to create a second mostly Black congressional district. For more than a year, th...
The Supreme Court's decision is a victory for Democrats, who are likely to pick up another seat in Louisiana under the recrafted congressional lines. It is also the latest development in a long-running legal battle over the state's House district boundaries that began after the 2020 Census, ...
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and 13 other [fascist] attorneys general [have] filed apetition…asking a federal court to block new rules that reduce the cost of phone and video calls with people in prisons and jails…The [politicians object to] new rules…prohibit[ing] telecommunication...
The ACLUsaid in a statementits lawsuit represented a group of plaintiffs "who are Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist, and non-religious." Each felt "the newly enacted statute violates longstanding U.S. Supreme Court precedent" along with the U.S. Constitution, the statement added. Meanwhi...
James N. G. Cauthen and C. Scott Peters, "Courting Constituents: District Elections and Judicial Behavior on the Louisiana Supreme Court," Justice System Journal (2003), accessed from the internet site http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4043/is_200301/ai_n9226585 on 28 May 2006....
In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a similar Kentucky law was unconstitutional and violated the First Amendment establishment, which says Congress can “make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” The high court found that the law had no secular ...
State Supreme Court rules second candidate ineligible for run for seat on high court ByChris Dickerson|5 months ago Special election in litigated Caddo Parish sheriff's race goes to Democrat ByMichael Carroll|11 months ago Legislation Special session produces bills to flatten income tax, boost Loui...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court Monday declined to review last year’s decision by a federal judge that expanded early voting and mail balloting in Louisiana during last fall’s presidential election.
FILE - Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry talks to reporters outside the Supreme Court, Jan. 7, 2022, in Washington. Landry, the early GOP front runner in the state’s governor race, attended his first televised gubernatorial debate Friday even...