Paul Braun

Attorney General Jeff Landry issued a threat to New Orleans officials Tuesday: enforce the state’s near-absolute ban on abortion or risk losing state funding for projects in the city.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear about a team of blind cyclists who tackled the world’s toughest bike race. And, we hear the latest on today’s hearing over the state’s abortion trigger laws.

In a hearing Friday over Louisiana's trigger laws that would ban most abortions, a judge in New Orleans declined to extend a temporary restraining order against the ban that had taken effect immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, only to be halted by a lawsuit filed by a state abortion clinic.

With Louisiana’s abortion ban temporarily blocked by a judge’s order, Attorney General Jeff Landry is threatening the medical licenses of doctors who continue to provide abortion care at the state’s three abortion clinics.

Capital Access Reporter Paul Braun breaks down this recent ruling with WRKF’s Adam Vos.

Louisiana lawmakers approved legislation that would – if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court this summer – immediately shutter the state’s three abortion clinics, ban the procedure in nearly all pregnancies after the moment of “fertilization and implantation” and impose stiff criminal penalties on doctors who perform the procedure. Under the law, there would be no exceptions for rape or incest.

A Louisiana House committee investigating the violent death of Ronald Greene in Louisiana State Police custody has called Gov. John Bel Edwards and top administration officials to provide public testimony on their handling of the incident in the committee’s next meeting later this month.

In an unusual move, the Louisiana House voted Tuesday to revive a controversial bill that would ban public school teachers from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we discuss the resignation of Cedric Richmond from his position in the President Joe Biden White House. We also get the latest news from the State Capitol and learn about violations of prisoners rights at the Mississippi State Penitentiary.

Gov. John Bel Edwards has issued a state emergency declaration in response to the two tornadoes that ripped through St. Bernard Parish and other parts of metro New Orleans on Tuesday night.