Louisiana voting rights suit dismissed, but still on appeal
KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) A lawsuit that resulted in a federal judge expanding early voting and mail balloting during last year s presidential election in Louisiana was formally dismissed Thursday by a federal judge in Baton Rouge.
But it remained alive in a federal appeals court, where Republican state officials want to keep the battle alive.
Voting rights advocates got what they wanted last fall when U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick ordered the expanded voting opportunities during the coronavirus pandemic. Republican Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, the state s top election official, did not try to block the Sept. 16 order as the November election neared. But, he and Republican state Attorney General Jeff Landry are appealing, hoping the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will rule that Dick s order was wrong.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Having gotten what they wanted last fall expanded early voting and mail balloting in the last presidential election voting rights advocates in Louisiana are trying to dismiss the lawsuit they filed seeking safe voting opportunities during the coronavirus pandemic.
Photo Surfaces of NBA YoungBoy Smiling in Jail
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After his bond was denied last week, NBA YoungBoy was seen smiling in a newly-surfaced photo from jail. He was surrounded by other inmates in the photo, which was posted by DJ Akademiks.
YoungBoy was indicted on March 10 by a grand jury on charges that he possessed a firearm as a felon and that he possessed a firearm not registered to him in a federal database. He was arrested on March 22 in California following a police pursuit, and Chief U.S. District Judge Shelley Dick rejected the idea of releasing him on bond.
Louisiana Prison Health Care is Unconstitutionally Bad
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We all know that prison is a horrible place to be. That s exactly the theory behind a place like that - it s not someplace you
want to go. The hope is this: It s
so bad, normal citizens do everything they can to avoid breaking the law just to stay out of there!
With that being said, there is a fine line between a place so terrible that it serves as a deterrent to a life of crime and an inhumane hole we throw people in to forget about them. Of course the civilized world we live in requires us to care for even those in prison so that they can pay their debt to society and return to life on the outside of those walls. Unfortunately in Louisiana, we re not doing so good with that care part. According to KADN s report, the entire state is getting called out on it.
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