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...The high court on Monday also dismissed an appeal filed by Louisiana lawmakers who were seeking to stop the state’s congressional map from being redrawn to enhance black voters’ power....
...Last year, Trump was able to install Mike Johnson, a relatively obscure lawmaker from Louisiana but one of his allies, to be Speaker of the House....
...While Trump was attacking America’s judiciary, his acolytes in Washington were making its legislature ungovernable....
...They advocated for Michigan to prioritise Covid vaccinations for the incarcerated and challenged the legality of the Georgia state legislature’s voting maps on the basis that they diluted black voting strength...
...Georgia is just one of two states — alongside Louisiana — that requires run-offs if no candidate hits the 50 per cent threshold on election day....
...“And that will determine the contours of what a legislature can do.”...
...“I’m very appreciative of the Louisiana AAP and its support,” he added....
...“A person in Louisiana would have to make a 1,300-mile round trip to get to the closest clinic.”...
...In three states — Louisiana, Kentucky and South Dakota — the trigger bans were designed to go into place automatically without any further intervention from state officials....
...However, Louisiana is debating a bill that would criminalise taking abortion pills, and other states could follow, Ziegler said....
...John Kennedy, the Republican senator from Louisiana, quizzed her on a New York Times opinion piece she wrote in 2020 that questioned why the Fed was helping to prop up a “dying industry” by allowing oil,...
...Conservative legislatures have been emboldened by the recent appointments to the Supreme Court....
...voted against party lines in the earlier vote — Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania — were joined by Bill Cassidy of Louisiana...
...Southern state legislatures and regulators remain friendlier to the fossil fuel industry....
...(FT) US Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion law The 5-4 decision is a blow for American conservatives who want to overturn Roe vs Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established a woman’s legal...
...In recent months, AK Steel of Ohio has shut a facility in Kentucky, and Bayou Steel of Louisiana has filed for bankruptcy....
...She thought it more likely that conservative state legislatures would chip away at the decision by passing new laws that restricted abortion access....
...Last June, Louisiana, which has a Republican-controlled legislature and voted for Donald Trump, passed what was arguably one of the most sweeping criminal reform packages in the country....
...The Louisiana state legislature made some prisoners sentenced for second degree murder in the 1970s automatically eligible for parole....
...The bipartisan state legislature this year passed reforms intended to reduce the prison population by 10 per cent over the next decade....
...Teri Johnson, a Louisiana president of her local federation of teachers, who is running for state legislature, said she had broader motivations beyond her core platform of education....
...In the coming months, she hopes to run for a seat in Louisiana’s state legislature, with a platform focused on education and schools....
...The district was redrawn into a horseshoe shape by the Republican state legislature, excising African-Americans, who heavily vote Democrat, and bringing in whites, who are overwhelmingly conservative....
...“I’m afraid a lot of Floridians will suffer because of the rigid and partisan ideology of the governor and extremists in the state legislature who were determined to undermine federal healthcare reforms,...
...But Democratic candidates like Kay Hagan in North Carolina, Mark Pryor in Arkansas and Mary Landrieu in Louisiana are battling hard to stay out of Mr Obama’s shadow....
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