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"It’s obvious that Pelosi’s Select Committee went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation," Loudermilk said... Forensic investigators hired by a Republican-led committee recovered more than 100 encrypted files that the Democratic-led House Jan. 6 Select Committee deleted days before the GOP took over the House majority, according to a new report released Monday. House Administration Oversight Subcommittee Chair Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., sent a letter to former Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., demanding he provide answers and passwords for the data, which was deleted against House rules, according to Fox News Digital....

The Louisiana Legislature adjourned from its special session on Friday, passing new congressional districts as required by a federal court order. Lawmakers also sent to Gov. Jeff Landry's desk for a possible signature a bill that would close the state's open primary system. Senate Bill 8, sponsored by Sen. Glen Womack, R-Madisonville, and preferred by Landry, would transform Republican U.S. Rep. Garret Graves’ 6th Congressional District into a second Black-majority district. The House favored it 86-16 and the Senate agreed to the lower chamber's changes 27-11. Lawmakers also passed an appropriation bill for SB8 that would provide $1.4 million to...

The “demon” Lousiana teen who brutally carjacked and dragged a 73-year-old grandmother, tearing her arm and clothes off when she became stuck in the seatbelt and later died, learned his fate Friday. John Honore, 18, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in Linda Frickey’s death in 2022 as the woman’s family celebrated that “justice was served” and hoped the teen wouldn’t make it out of prison. “There is no remorse, he got what he deserved. He did it,” Frickey’s sister Jinnylynn Griffin told reporters outside the courthouse. “We don’t care what happened before March 21, 2022, that’s...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams and his 78-year-old mother were carjacked at gunpoint Monday night (Oct. 16) in New Orleans, his spokesman said. “OPDA confirms that DA Williams and his 78-year-old mother were carjacked at gunpoint as he was helping her into a car,” office spokesman Keith Lampkin said in response to questions from Fox 8. “DA Williams and his mother were unharmed and both thank the NOPD for their hard work tonight and every night responding to crime victims.” No other details of the crime were immediately available. The New Orleans Police Department did...

Our readers already know that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot wasn’t an insurrection, but it’s still absolutely mind-blowing just how much we’ve been lied about the events of that day. The truth has never stopped the left from pushing the narrative that it wants, between the criminally partisan House Select Committee on Jan. 6 and Joe Biden's annual speeches making insane accusations and debunked mischaracterizations, it's almost a miracle they haven't turned Jan. 6 into a federal holiday akin to Memorial Day. According to the left, it was not only an insurrection, but as many as five Capitol Police officers...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) got the better of CBS moderator Margaret Brennan — and perhaps CBS editorial “standards” — in an interview that aired Sunday. “Back in 2021, you were the lawmaker who circulated the legal brief known as the Texas amicus brief, challenging the 2020 election outcome in a number of states, which by CBS editorial standards makes you an election denier,” Brennan said to Johnson on Face the Nation. “That’s nonsense,” Johnson calmly replied. Brennan persisted, “Can I get you on the record on that?”

In the 2023 election cycle in Louisiana, conservatives let their voices be heard. It wasn't just a Republican wave in the state last year - it was a decidedly conservative wave. Moderate (read: really Democrat) Republicans were thrashed just as much as actual Democrats were. SNIP>>>>> But Republicans in Louisiana can be their own worst enemy when it comes to governance. Even while Republicans had majorities in both chambers of the legislature during Edwards' term, they could rarely agree on leadership and committee assignments, and on more than one occasion, Republican leaders picked Democrats to chair committees in the House...

Three employees at a sporting goods store in Louisiana were terminated from their jobs after attempting to stop a shoplifter who allegedly stole a pistol. Michelle Sutton, along with two other unidentified workers at the Academy Sports + Outdoors in Metairie, Louisiana, said that the shoplifting incident happened Dec. 16. The sales associates said that they thought they were about to make a sale and were showing a customer a pistol, when he took off with the firearm. Sutton, who was working as a team lead at the store, said once she received word on her radio, she immediately dropped...

Louisiana’s outgoing Democratic governor pardoned 40 convicted murderers since October including one of whom had been on death row and another who fatally stabbed a woman 39 times. Gov. John Bel Edwards has been on a mission to help Louisiana lose the title of being the World’s Prison Capital and has signed the pardons to release 56 total convicts in five separate batches. Edwards, whose term ends on Jan 8. 2024, campaigned to reduce the state’s prison population and is attempting to see some results in his final weeks in office. The Pelican State governor began signing his pardons on...

Louisiana's outgoing governor has pardoned 40 convicted murders in the final three months of his rule in a bid to end the state's unwelcome reputation as the most incarcerated in the nation. John Bel Edwards, the only Democrat governor in the South, will leave office on January 8, after serving the maximum of two four-year terms. The 57-year-old lawyer has made reducing Louisiana's prison population a priority.

Joe Scarborough: self-hating Southerner? Scarborough -- originating from the "cracker counties" of the Florida panhandle -- sometimes likes to stress his Southern upbringing, and describe himself as a "simple country lawyer" who attended two southern state universities. But the Morning Joe host has developed an ugly habit of mocking southern Republicans by putting on their supposed accents. We've caught Scarborough doing that twice in the case of House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky, who at least sports an accent. Check out this instance of Scarborough fantasizing Comer saying [at 0:25], of his supposed lack of evidence against Joe...

House Republican leadership pulled two bills reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act from the floor, as Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., faced backlash for allowing two bills to be introduced on the surveillance law.Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a member of the House Rules Committee, confirmed to the Washington Examiner late Monday evening that neither of the bills reforming Section 702 would come to the floor for a vote this week. Republicans have been split on how to extend Section 702 of FISA, so Johnson had intended to introduce both bills Tuesday and have the one with the most votes advance to...

Republicans have warned for years that our elections aren’t as secure as some claim. Some states, most Republican-led, have passed laws to prevent “irregularities” and other problems erode the nation’s election integrity. Democrats have fought these changes tooth and nail. Joe Biden had even called some state election laws “Jim Crow 2.0.” But it appears, from time to time, Republicans are proven right. An election in one red state was rocked by controversy, after a candidate won by just one vote. Now, a former state Supreme Court justice is making a stunning decision. From The Post Millennial: Retired Louisiana Supreme...

CADDO PARISH, La. (KSLA) - Retired Louisiana Supreme Court Justice E. Joseph Bleich has made a ruling in the election lawsuit filed by Caddo Parish sheriff candidate, John Nickelson. That ruling came down Tuesday, Dec. 5. The judge ruled the results of the Nov. 18 runoff election, in which Henry Whitehorn defeated Nickelson by one vote, are declared void. It was further ordered a new runoff election shall be conducted. It’s expected that Whitehorn’s team will appeal this decision. They have until 9:56 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 8 to do so. The ruling states “it was proven beyond any doubt...

A New Orleans teenager has been found guilty of murdering grandmother Linda Frickey who had one of her arms torn off in a violent carjacking in March last year. It took a jury less than four hours to convict Honore on Monday. He now faces a mandatory life sentence on a charge of second degree murder.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) released all the 44,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage. Immediately, the release blew apart the Jan. 6 Committee's narrative about the event. . The video release showed why they were likely suppressed. They included police escorting peaceful protesters walking through the Capitol, even shaking their hands. There was even a video showing one "protester" who appeared to have been cuffed, then taken to an area by the Capitol Police, where he was released and fist-bumped one of the officers. ... That raised many questions about whether the man released was an undercover officer, which then...

Republicans swept the Louisiana attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer runoff races Saturday, giving the GOP a monopoly on all statewide races in the state. Early results projected landslide wins by all of the Republicans. Liz Murrill will be Louisiana's first woman to serve as attorney general, while Nancy Landry won the secretary of state's office to become the state's chief elections officer and John Fleming will oversee the state bank as treasurer. All three are new to their offices. Murrill replaces her current boss Jeff Landry, a Republican who won the governor's race outright in the Oct. 14...

From Trump post: Louisiana, there is a big and very important Election on Saturday for Attorney General, State Treasurer, and Secretary of State. Our Republican Nominees, Liz Murrill for Attorney General, John Fleming for Treasurer, and Nancy Landry for Secretary of State, are outstanding in every way and have my Complete and Total Endorsement. With my strong Endorsement, Jeff Landry made history by flipping the seat of Louisiana’s 2-term Democrat Governor without a runoff — Jeff will be a great Governor! We need Republican Leadership in the Great State of Louisiana, so please Get Out and Vote Republican on Saturday!

ATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In Louisiana, where there has been a Democratic governor for eight years and Donald Trump won the past two presidential elections, runoffs on Saturday will decide whether Republicans control all five of the Deep South state's top executive branch positions. The gubernatorial election was decided in October when Jeff Landry, a Republican backed by former President Trump, won outright and avoided a runoff. Voters will cast ballots this weekend to determine the winners of a slew of other races, including three vacant, statewide offices: attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer. The election will shape...

From Trump post: Louisiana, there is a big and very important Election on Saturday for Attorney General, State Treasurer, and Secretary of State. Our Republican Nominees, Liz Murrill for Attorney General, John Fleming for Treasurer, and Nancy Landry for Secretary of State, are outstanding in every way and have my Complete and Total Endorsement. With my strong Endorsement, Jeff Landry made history by flipping the seat of Louisiana’s 2-term Democrat Governor without a runoff — Jeff will be a great Governor! We need Republican Leadership in the Great State of Louisiana, so please Get Out and Vote Republican on Saturday!