Julie O'Donoghue (Louisiana Illuminator)
The Louisiana Illuminator-
At least a third of the nearly 20 bills Louisiana lawmakers proposed to put guardrails on artificial intelligence have been scrapped following threats from President Donald Trump to pull federal funding from states that regulate the industry. -
Justice Will Crain asked the state’s 22nd Judicial District Court, where he used to serve as a lower court judge, to seal his divorce records from public view in September 2024. -
Louisiana lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a set of dramatic changes to state ethics laws Wednesday that will make it much more difficult to charge elected officials and public employees with misconduct. -
Gov. Jeff Landry tied public school teacher pay to a constitutional amendment on budget and tax policies that failed spectacularly at the polls Saturday. -
Republican Gov Jeff Landry’s budget proposal proposes increasing state spending on health care by $1.5 billion in the next fiscal year. -
The loss of revenue would worsen the state’s budget problems. -
Gov. Jeff Landry’s attorneys told a judge Tuesday that the Republican expected to reach a deal with the Louisiana Board of Ethics over ethics charges linked to a trip to Hawaii by December, but they did not provide specifics on what that agreement might look like. -
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Current state law says a “fertilized human ovum is a human being." That language could leave doctors and other IVF providers open to lawsuits or even criminal charges. -
The money was supposed to have been allocated in lieu of a permanent raise.
