It's important to understand this trick. Right wingers have been arguing for decades that "the administrative state" is a usurpation of the judicial branch. Want regulation against polluters? Just sue them, they say. But then they make it illegal to sue #lalegewww.nola.com/news/environ...
If you had told me, after Katrina and the BP disaster, that the only politically feasible action the US can take on climate change will be to force the public to accept it and shield its perpetrators from its costs, I would have said... well actually I said that #lalegewww.nola.com/news/environ...
Thanks to the various tax reforms enacted at the beginning of Landry's term, the state is projecting a $900 million deficit by 2030. They do this on purpose in order to favor friends. It's a systematic looting #lalegelailluminator.com/2026/03/12/n...
How a Federal Court in New Orleans Is Driving the Conservative Agenda
Today, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is an outlier. But a Trump victory in November could transform it into the standard-bearer of MAGA-era jurisprudence.
Looking at all the shit Louisiana's legislature is passing willy nilly, their strategy is just to CLOG the courts with challenges to protect people's right and shut, huh?
Jeff Landry won the Louisiana governor's race way too easily
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry had an air of inevitability about him as he ran for governor. But Democrats didn't put enough money behind Shawn Wilson.