Jeff Landry

Rather than add money to the budget, like in recent years, the governor is asking lawmakers to cut $168 million from schools’ budgets.

Louisiana legislators passed two out of three bills aimed at reforming the Orleans Parish court system as the 2026 Legislative Session came to a close Monday (June 1), leaving the parish with two court systems, one clerk and potentially three fewer judges.

Similar issues that plagued early voting in Louisiana were present on election day. The state Democratic Party says the “mass confusion” amounts to “voter suppression and voter intimidation.”

In a “Red Alert” message, the incumbent senator claims “the Jeff Landry election process mess” has kept some from being able to cast their vote for him.

In the civil rights suit, Duncan alleges that Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill engaged in a “coordinated conspiracy” to keep Duncan from taking office.

The United States Supreme Court’s ruling Wednesday morning (April 29) that Louisiana's 2024 election map was unconstitutional leaves the door open for Louisiana to redraw its congressional map and eliminate one of its majority Black districts.

Gov. Jeff Landry and Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Susan Bourgeois made the announcement Tuesday (April 28), saying LIV Golf’s CEO asked them for the change in favor of hosting a tournament in the city this fall.

The state parole board freed 185 prisoners during Landry’s tenure, compared with 858 in the two years before he took office. Hundreds who would have been released under previous governors remain incarcerated with little chance of earning parole.

In a brief column for the conservative online outlet Breitbart, Landry directly tied Maduro to opioid deaths in the United States — particularly from fentanyl.

A task force Gov. Jeff Landry assembled is recommending that Louisiana’s colleges and universities join six other university systems from Southern states in a new conservative accrediting body.