A new attack ad slams Governor Edwards for the hiring of alleged sexual assualter and harrasser, Johnny Anderson, to his administration. Matt Doyle has the story.
Vice President Mike Pence holds a rally at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner this afternoon, urging Louisiana residents to vote Republican, and Don Trump Jr. visits Lafayette Monday for another rally. The Louisiana Democratic Party says Louisiana voters need to speak up by voting for Edwards, so that the state doesn’t return to Bobby Jindal’s failed policies.
The US Supreme Court agrees to hear a Louisiana abortion case that deals with a 2014 state law requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges. The Supreme Court shot down a nearly identical Texas law in 2016. Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino says this case will tell us where the nation’s highest court stands on abortion…
Only three clinics in the state provide abortions and opponents of the Louisiana law say it could close two of them.
Following three consecutive years of record-setting adoption rates resulting in over 2,400 kids finding permanent homes, the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services receives a national award for its work in adoption from the US Department of Health and Human Services. DCFS Secretary Marketa Garner Walters.