Posted on 07/16/2026 4:34:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In ruby-red Louisiana, a disturbing power play exposed how far a rusting Democratic machine will reach to undermine lawful state government.
From the isolated blue stronghold of Orleans Parish, which is New Orleans itself, local officials defied the state legislature. They basically claimed home rule trumped all, then indicted Attorney General Liz Murrill, a Republican, for the “crime” of enforcing Louisiana law.
This was no routine dispute. It was illegal retaliation from a shrinking political island desperate to reclaim influence it lost at the ballot box.
The situation is wheels within wheels. Within wheels.
Orleans Parish long maintained separate civil and criminal clerks of court, a relic unique among Louisiana’s 64 parishes. This year, Republican-led lawmakers passed Act 15, folding the criminal clerk’s duties into the existing civil clerk’s office. Voters had elected Calvin Duncan, recently freed from a long, wrongful prison stretch, to the now-eliminated criminal post. Instead, Chelsey Richard Napoleon, the civil clerk, would assume the combined role.
Federal and state courts, including the Louisiana Supreme Court on June 1, upheld Act 15 as constitutional. No vacancy existed. The merger took effect.
New Orleans Democrats were incensed. The district attorney had pushed the city council for an “interim clerk.” Mayor Helena Moreno insisted a new office required a special election. On May 11, the all-Democratic council passed resolutions appointing retired Judge Calvin Johnson and scheduling a fall vote. They charged forward even after the attorney general affirmed the legislature’s action.
Murrill responded to New Orleans professionally. She advised that its moves were “plainly wrong.” No new office had been created. When ignored, her May 13 follow-up cited a usurper statute that strips elected officials of their positions for recognizing false officeholders. The impostor himself could be prosecuted. The City Council’s defiance only intensified.
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New Orleans was once the haven for PIRATES, SMUGGLERS, and foreigners running away from criminal prosecution in their home countries.
It is no different today..............
Have the governor call up the state militia. The militia then move into the city and declares Marshal Law. Then we see how far this whole process goes.
“The militia then move into the city and declares Marshal Law.”
I am not quite sure Marshal would go along with that.
“Chocolate City” was the quote from a former mayor.
Jackson MS would like a word
The solution is very simple. States are sovereign. Cities are not. Counties are not. They exercise power SOLELY AT THE PLEASURE OF the state. It can be unceremoniously ripped away from them at any time and there is NOTHING they can do about it. That’s what the state legislature needs to do. Every time they abuse their power, reverse it AND strip that power away from them.
BTT
Marshal Law is a Tekken character. Tekken is an arcade fighting game.
I believe you mean martial law, AKA military law.
These are the modern day steps leading to the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Dems proceed on this course at their, and the nation’s, peril. Unfortunately they are too power mad and historically ignorant to understand what they are doing.
It is like Michigan, Illinois snd other purple states. The blue cities bully us (outstate), and we do not seem to gave a rrecourse.
The cities elect the bosses
Democrats, and especially Democrat Socialists, are not the nation’s best and brightest. But they have gotten control of the megaphone, and are blasting out a vast amount of unmitigated BS, with little or no understanding of the words they use, like “democracy”, “affordability”, and “social justice”, terms ill-defined at best, and totally misused in context.
None is so blind as he who will not see.
And Pennsylvania!
Everyone seems to cowtow to Filthedelphia!
I didn’t see the cause mentioned. It’s the One Man, One Vote opinion of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
They made up a ruling that said it is unconstitutional for bicameral state legislatures to be apportioned like the US Senate and House. Well, not like the Senate that represents geographic areas.
Prior to that, rural counties had a meaningful voice in state government. No longer. The populous cities out-number, and therefore can out-vote everyone else. This is what is going on with counties in Illinois wanting to secede from Illinois and form a new state. Similar movements are in Northern California, Oregon, etc. The Supreme Court gave state government to populous cities and disenfranchised rural voters.
Say! Do you think this explains the platform of the DSA, where they want to abolish the US Senate? Yeah, lower population states in the Midwest and West will never have a voice in national government again.
Perhaps the example of the St Louis, MO prosecutor served as the model. Kim Gardner indicated newly-elected Republican governor Eric Greitens on charges that he sexually molested his hair dresser, the proof of which was supposedly a photo that apparently was never found. When that case collapsed, she then charged him with using a mailing list from his charity to raise money for his gubernatorial campaign. This second charge led to Greitens’s resignation.
It took years to dislodge Kim Gardner from office. Most of her staff resigned. She let murder suspects free through her incompetence, she refused to prosecute vandals attacking statures and she protected the couple for displaying firearms when their gated community was invaded by protestors. Only when she was found to be going to nursing school when she was supposed to be working was she forced to resign. To the last she claimed all criticism of her was racism.
Conservatives areas have no choice in the matter in blue states. Two or three cities rule the rest of the state. For example, Oregon. PORTLAND can outvote the rest of the state on everything. The stupid gun laws they passed was passed thanks to the commies in Portland and Salem. It went from one of the freest gun states to competing with California for least free all because Portland black and illegal alien gangsters can’t stop shooting themselves SO the rest of the state had to be punished. And we all know how well gun laws work.
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