The President will sign the historic $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill today. It contains a reported $6-billion for roads and bridges in Louisiana. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Former Lt. Governor and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has been tapped to oversee the implementation of the legislation. Landrieu says their work will require strong partnerships across the government and with state and local leaders, business and labor to create good-paying jobs and rebuild America for the Middle Class.

Governor Edwards will be next to act on the Louisiana Pardon Board’s unanimous recommendation to posthumously pardon the late Homer Plessy. The man known as a 19th-century civil rights pioneer was arrested for trying to sit in the White section of a segregated train bound for Covington. Orleans Parish D-A, Jason Williams, spoke in favor of Plessy’s pardon.
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Plessy died in 1925 with the conviction for violating the railroad segregation law still a part of his record.

And the Louisiana Supreme Court will likely have to rule on whether those convicted by non-unanimous juries should receive a new trial. Non-unanimous verdicts were banned in 2018. Defense attorney Hardell Ward represents two men who were convicted on either a 10-2 or 11-1 verdict…
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The state supreme court will likely hear the issue next year.