Wall Street is reacting today after last week’s news that the unemployment rate increased. Economist Dr. Loren Scott says history indicates, according to the Sahm (pronounced Sham) Rule, that we’re in a recession anytime the unemployment rate increases a half percentage point more than the last 12-month average.
Some of the denials of Louisiana residents’ requests for information from Governor Jeff Landry’s office either don’t apply or aren’t legal says President of Public Affairs Research Council Dr. Steven Procopio. For example, he says, legislative privilege isn’t applicable to the governor and the deliberative process exemption was revoked under former governor Bobby Jindall. Procopio adds Landry’s office only had 65 information requests in his first few months in office and should have been able to respond to all of them.
Cut 8 (11) “…to those records.”
State Attorney General Liz Murrill is filing a brief against the lawsuit filed against the state’s Ten Commandments law requiring a poster of the biblical text to be displayed in all public-school classrooms. Murrill says the suit that’s been filed by several advocacy groups is premature.
Cut 3 (14) “…constitutional rights.”
Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino says the law is patently unconstitutional and he expects the state will lose the case at the district and appellate court levels. He says it will be really interesting to see what happens in two or three years when the case makes it to the US Supreme Court.
Murrill says the high-profile case is being handled internally through her solicitor general.