Jun. 13, 2024 07:18 AM EDT
The Advocate. June 9, 2024.
Editorial: Session was jam-packed with action, but its impact less clear
If there’s a word for the annual legislative session that ended last week — indeed, for the three sessions that lawmakers have held since they took office in...
Jun. 03, 2024 19:26 PM EDT
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers adjourned the 2024 legislative session on Monday, a three-month-long gathering of the GOP-controlled body marked by the passage of a slew of conservative policies that could reshape various aspects of the state.
The regular session was...
May. 30, 2024 18:20 PM EDT
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana could soon become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom — in another expansion of religion into day-to-day life by a Republican-dominated legislature.
The legislation received final...
May. 29, 2024 19:05 PM EDT
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Critics of a new Louisiana law, which makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of a police officer under certain circumstances, fear that the measure could hinder the public’s ability to film officers — a tool that has increasingly been used to hold...