Crawfish season is officially here, and that means we begin monitoring crawfish prices. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The second-ranked LSU baseball team didn’t play it’s best last night. The Tigers only had five hits, but they beat Dartmouth 5 to 2. LSU plays Northeastern today at 2 PM. In other action, Louisiana Tech fell to 12th-ranked Southern Miss eight to three. And the Cajuns seven game winning streak ended as they lost to U-C San Diego seven-to-three.
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Governor Landry is asking Congress to shift West Feliciana Parish’s federal judicial district from the Middle District to the Western District. In a letter to lawmakers, Landry stated that his reason is to ease the caseload in a district with a growing population. However, legal analyst Franz Borghardt says Landry has an ulterior motive – to shift cases involving prisoners at Angola to court where he could get more favorable rulings.
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All judges in the Middle district were appointed by Obama, whereas the vast majority of the judges in the Western District were appointed by Trump. Borghardt says once confirmed to the federal bench, that’s when politics are supposed to come to an end.
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It will require an act of Congress to approve Landry’s request; Borghardt says approval is far from guaranteed.