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Louisiana Governor, AG Model Fight Against Lawfare After Bogus New Orleans Indictment

Landry is mulling a special session of the legislature to look at ways lawmakers can ‘take more control over the court system’ in New Orleans since the city is incapable of self-governance.

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Gov. Jeff Landry, R-La., and Attorney General Liz Murrill, R-La., called for a federal investigation into lawfare from officials in New Orleans who somehow secured a grand jury indictment against Murrill for sending them letters notifying them they had broken the law.

Murrill was indicted by a grand jury in Democrat-run Orleans Parish on 16 felony counts for malfeasance and intimidation earlier this month, facing 80 years in jail. The indictment came after Murrill informed New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno and other city officials that they could be removed from office if they continued to refuse to comply with a state law consolidating Orleans Parish’s civil and criminal court clerks into a single position.

Officials in New Orleans then “took it upon themselves to ignore my legal advice over and over again, and appoint someone to a fictional office that they made up the week of a statewide election for the Senate primary for the United States Senate,” Murrill said at a press conference, noting that the reckless act could have interfered with the vote and “undermined all of the ballots of the city of New Orleans.”

“A group of people in New Orleans, who still remain largely unidentified, were able to weaponize the grand jury system to indict a sitting attorney........

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