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Jun 5 5 tweets 3 min read
The House is resuming its work, after some jockeying over whether they were going to allow bills to be heard after the 82nd day (requires a 2/3 vote). Republicans garner enough votes to overpower Democrats on a vaccine bill, allowing it to be heard 76-23. #lalege #lagov
And Republicans appear to retaliate against Dems for opposing Frieman's bill. Seabaugh asks Tammy Phelps how she voted on the Frieman motion, before Republicans kill the motion to hear her bill on a 37-65 vote. #lalege #lagov
Republicans seem to be only letting Democrat bills heard if the member voted in favor of letting Republican bills get heard in the Senate. Seems like they're retaliating against any Dem that opposed the Republican vaccine bill #lalege #lagov
Rep. Duplessis (D) asks House Republicans to vote on these bills on the merits, like he did on the first R bill: "I’m going to ask this body to take a vote on the merits and not on the politics.” They kill his expungement bill over his vote against the vax bill #lalege #lagov
This seems to me like the Republicans flexing their political muscles in the House, more than anything. #lalege #lagov

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Jun 6
News: A federal judge has ruled Louisiana's Republican-led Legislature must redraw the proposed Congressional map to include an additional majority-minority district. Appeals expected. #lalege #lagov
Republican legislative leaders believe the 5th circuit will step in quickly to stay the opinion.

Qualifying for the congressional elections is July 30th, but the primary election is technically not till November because of Louisiana's unique election system. #lalege #lagov
Here's the ruling from Shelly Dick ordering them to draw another majority-Black seat. Plaintiffs argue Black voters' influence is being diluted because they're packed into CD2 (Carter's seat). And they say Louisiana's unusually late election date gives time for a new map #lalege Image
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Louisiana lawmakers are holding the first hearing of a committee tasked with exploring legalizing recreational marijuana. You can watch it here: legis.la.gov/legis/video.as… #lalege #lagov
We're hearing testimony warning legalization will lead to a bunch of negative effects, like increased traffic fatalities, etc. Here's some fact-checking I did on this earlier this year theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne… #lalege #lagov
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.⁦@SteveScalise⁩,
@AGJeffLandry⁩, ⁦@LouisianaLtGov⁩ are all here for the meeting of a task force that aims to close Louisiana’s open primary system. They’ll consider a resolution to do that today. #lalege #lagov
The draft resolution would only call for closing congressional primaries, not statewide races. Will be interested to hear what @AGJeffLandry thinks about this. #lalege #lagov
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Trump supporters apparently upset with the outcome of the presidential election are rallying at the Louisiana state Capitol. Speaker mentioned “watermarked ballots” and says “don’t give up” #lalege #lagov
Signs say “Biden=communism” and “stop the steal.” All major networks and Fox News have called the race for president-elect Joe Biden. #lalege #lagov
Lanar Whitney, the RNC Rep for Louisiana, says “We will not go down without a battle.” #lalege #lagov
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