The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear Louisiana v. Callais , a case that could finally rein in decades of judicial overreach in redistricting and return power to where it belongs — the states and their elected legislatures. At issue is whether federal courts have taken Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act far beyond its original intent. What began as a law to prevent discrimination in voting has increasingly been used to force states to sort voters by race, creating districts e

As the state transitions to a new public defense oversight system, Gov. Jeff Landry seeks to keep Rémy Starns in his post as the state...

The Supreme Court on Monday is taking up a dispute between Republican-led states and the Biden administration over how far the federal...

NOLA.com --- Longtime former state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson on Wednesday paid $50,000 in restitution to the state Democratic Party she...

This morning in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs, The Louisiana Policy Review submitted a...

This letter to the editor originally ran in The Advocate and was written by State Representative Thomas Pressly (R-Shreveport). After...

The legislative branch makes the law, the judicial branch interprets the law, and the executive branch enforces the law. This is the...