Tag Archives: Jeff Landry

The Washington Post reports: A Louisiana law professor’s return to teaching in the aftermath of using profanities to criticize President Donald Trump and his state’s governor is on hold after an appellate court intervened Thursday. Tenured professor Ken Levy was placed on leave by Louisiana State University Jan. 17, three days after he made comments about Trump and Gov. Jeff …

Just in via press release: This Sunday evening at 6:00 p.m. CT, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, a Louisiana resident and former state representative, will hold a one-hour broadcast “Pray for the Nation” in response to the terrorist attack in New Orleans. Christian leaders including Pastor Carter Conlon, Pastor Jack Hibbs, Michele Bachmann, Dr. …

Meanwhile in MAGAland: Governor Jeff Landry (R-LA) is drawing condemnation over a picture he posted on social media which showed him posing jovially outside of a steakhouse just blocks away from the deadly attack on Bourbon Street. The governor posted the photo on Wednesday night showing him outside a high-end restaurant on Magazine Street showing him with several companions smiling …

The Associated Press reports: Louisiana’s plan to make all of the state’s public school classrooms post the Ten Commandments remains blocked under an order Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a state request to temporarily stay an earlier order by U.S. District Judge John deGravelles in Baton Rouge while …

The Associated Press reports: A new Louisiana requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1 was temporarily blocked Tuesday by a federal judge who said the law is “unconstitutional on its face.” U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles in Baton Rouge said the law had an “overtly religious” purpose, and rejected state officials’ claims …

The Guardian reports: A caged Bengal tiger was wheeled on to the field of Tiger Stadium in Louisiana’s capital of Baton Rouge for the first time in nearly a decade before kick-off of Saturday night’s football game between the state’s flagship university and its Alabama counterpart, fulfilling the wishes of the state’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry. The tiger in question …

Courthouse News reports: Represented by several civil liberties groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Louisiana, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Freedom from Religion Foundation, the plaintiffs brought in Steven Green, a professor of law, religious studies and history at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, as a witness in their bid for …

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports: Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng has issued a mandatory evacuation order for residents living outside of the federal levee protection system ahead of Tropical Storm Francine, which is expected to become a hurricane before landfall Wednesday. The order will affect residents in Crown Point, Jean Lafitte, Barateria, lower Lafitte and Grand Isle. Lee Sheng …

Baton Rouge’s ABC affiliate reports: Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill held a joint news conference Monday morning to address Louisiana’s controversial Ten Commandments law. Murrill says the state will be filing a brief asking U.S. District Judge John DeGravelles to dismiss the case, arguing the lawsuit is premature because no posters of the Ten Commandments have been …

Law & Crime reports: A controversial new law in Louisiana requiring schools to have a poster of the Ten Commandments in every classroom will not be in effect when students return next month, giving a federal judge time to weigh the constitutionality of the measure. U.S. District Court Judge for the Middle District of Louisiana John deGravelles on Friday approved …

Law & Crime reports: The families of Louisiana schoolchildren who sued to challenge a new law requiring that the Ten Commandments are displayed in every classroom are now asking a federal court to block the law before children return to school in August. When Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, signed the law, he said it was a way of respecting …

The Associated Press reports: Civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit Monday to block Louisiana’s new law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom, a measure they contend is unconstitutional. Plaintiffs in the suit include parents of Louisiana public school children with various religious backgrounds, who are represented by attorneys with the American Civil Liberties …

The Louisiana Illuminator reports: Four civil liberties groups will sue the state of Louisiana after Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law Wednesday that calls for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in school classrooms. The new rule applies to any school that accepts state money, including colleges and universities. The American Civil Liberties Union, its Louisiana chapter, Americans United …

The Independent reports: Louisiana’s Republican Governor Jeff Landry is looking for a legal fight after mandating the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state. “I’m going home to sign a bill that places the Ten Commandments in public classrooms,” he said during a recent GOP fundraiser in Tennessee. “I can’t wait to be sued.” Landry signed the bill into …

The Washington Post reports: Louisiana lawmakers on Monday approved a bill that would expand judges’ powers to sentence people convicted of certain sex crimes against children to physical castration. If passed into law, the bill would allow judges to order a surgical castration, which is more invasive than the chemical methods outlined in a 2008 law. Surgical castration orders would …

Baton Rouge’s ABC affiliate reports: First-of-its-kind legislation that classifies two abortion-inducing drugs as controlled and dangerous substances was signed into law Friday by Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry. The Republican governor announced his signing of the bill in Baton Rouge a day after it gained final legislative passage in the state Senate. The measure makes Louisiana the only state to categorize …

The Associated Press reports: Two abortion-inducing drugs could soon be reclassified as controlled and dangerous substances in Louisiana under a first-of-its-kind bill that received final legislative passage Thursday and is expected to be signed into law by the governor. Louisiana currently has a near-total abortion ban in place, applying both to surgical and medical abortions. The GOP-dominated Legislature’s push to …

The Washington Examiner reports: Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) hit back at Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger after the rock star threw a jab at him. At a Thursday night concert, Jagger, 80, made a quip that Landry wanted to return the world to the Stone Age. After his band finished performing their hit song “You Can’t Always Get What You …

The Associated Press reports: The Louisiana Legislature has until Jan. 15 to enact a new congressional map after a lower court last year ruled that the current political boundaries dilute the power of the state’s Black voters, a federal New Orleans appeals court said Friday. However, whether current Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards will call a special session to redraw …

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports: Jeff Landry, the next governor of Louisiana, is a combative Cajun from St. Martin Parish who spent the past eight years as the Republican attorney general. Landry, 52, is a GOP partisan who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump and who won headlines over the last eight years by repeatedly suing President Joe Biden, …