{"id":35968,"date":"2021-04-24T15:25:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T15:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=35968"},"modified":"2021-04-24T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T15:25:51","slug":"la-attorney-general-building-losing-record-in-court-challenges-to-dem-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=35968","title":{"rendered":"LA Attorney General Building Losing Record in Court Challenges to Dem Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/gambit\/news\/clancy_dubos\/article_531d9550-25c4-11eb-aeb4-ab1d3d1d1f38.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gambit<\/a>: &#8220;Four years ago\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/gambit\/news\/clancy_dubos\/article_6580eece-62bd-56e0-bb06-fda7e5b26541.html\" target=\"_blank\">I recalled in this space<\/a>\u00a0Gov. Earl K. Long\u2019s masterful put-down of then-state Attorney General Jack Gremillion \u2014 \u201cIf you want to hide something from him, put it in a law book.\u201d I jokingly speculated that the same might be said of current Louisiana AG Jeff Landry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, after watching Landry lose yet another court fight against Gov. John Bel Edwards, I\u2019m beginning to wonder if the joke is on us \u2014 Landry clearly has no grasp of the law. And yes, he really might be as dumb as he appears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Landry\u2019s latest courtroom defeat occurred on Nov. 12 in Baton Rouge, where Judge William Morvant&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/baton_rouge\/news\/politics\/legislature\/article_f2aebafc-251c-11eb-9cff-efc13ba16e2c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared unconstitutional<\/a>&nbsp;a 2003 state law that 65 Republican House members relied on to try to overturn one of Edwards\u2019 emergency declarations amid the spiking COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That Landry lost in court \u2014 again \u2014 should come as no surprise; he has run up&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/baton_rouge\/news\/coronavirus\/article_f2d20750-25c6-11eb-bda8-8305b29c949d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an impressive string of courtroom defeats<\/a>. Several weeks ago a judge in St. Martin Parish (Landry\u2019s political backyard) summarily rejected the AG\u2019s attempt to bar local and state election officials from accepting private, nonprofit funds to help them run elections amid the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Immediately&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/gambit\/news\/clancy_dubos\/article_3e5dc178-1abe-11eb-9363-9364a316c33f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">after losing the St. Martin case<\/a>, Landry insulted the presiding judge (and may have violated the Code of Professionalism and the Rules of Professional Conduct) by speculating that Judge Lewis Pitman \u201cwas a little confused\u201d because issues like those raised by the AG \u201ccan sometimes become complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody likes to lose, but even freshmen law students know that the rules of ethics and professionalism frown upon lawyers publicly dissing judges.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gambit: &#8220;Four years ago\u00a0I recalled in this space\u00a0Gov. Earl K. Long\u2019s masterful put-down of then-state Attorney General Jack Gremillion \u2014 \u201cIf you want to hide something from him, put it in a law book.\u201d I jokingly speculated that the same might be said of current Louisiana AG Jeff Landry. Now, after watching Landry lose yet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35969,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35968\/revisions\/35969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}