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he from North Louisiana....


He's from Iberville Parish
This entire story is absolutely crazy. It's like a real-life Grisham novel.
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Bring back at large voting. Get rid of all minority sub districts in judicial districts.


Amen. Even district court judges make rulings that can affect the entire state. It is totally ridiculous why judicial elections are run like legislative elections. Judges don't "represent" the people of their districts; their duty is to interpret the law in an impartial manner.
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So you’d prefer that they’d be appointed by the governor or Supreme Court? No thanks, we’d have a bench full of the highest bidder without a doubt.


Read the rest of my post.

But to further answer your question—I don’t think there is a perfect solution. However, there needs to be some type of vetting process in place for judges. The voting public typically is not going to know enough about any particular candidate’s legal acumen.

Currently, the only qualification criteria for judicial candidates is that they have to live in the district in which they are running and must have practiced law for 8 years (10 years for the courts of appeal and the Supreme Court). So if you meet those bare minimum qualifications and can win a popularity contest, you can sit in judgment over legal cases regardless of your actual legal experience.
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Fans of this should watch the first episode of The Studio on Apple TV+


I was just thinking the same thing. :lol:
I loathe that we elect judges in this state, but if we're going to stick with that process for our judiciary, we should at least expand the elections so that they aren't limited to a candidate's particular district. This is especially true for supreme court justices; they make decisions that impact the law in the entire state, yet only those who reside in a candidate's district can vote for that justice. Also, if we are going to stick with judicial elections, we must change the current law that exempts judges from recall (judges are the only elected officials in the state who are statutorily exempt from recall).
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Running back position has been missing ever since 2016


Remember CEH and TDP? The former helped lead us to a national title and the latter holds the school record for rushing yardage in a single game.
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What makes this part of Iberville so dangerous?


Pretty close to Canal, and Canal is pretty much a no-go after dark.


This is a big part of it. The first 100 block of each East-West street (between Canal and Iberville) seems to attract a seedy element.

There are several contributing factors to this. One is that the 100 block is actually outside of the Vieux Carre Commission's purview (Iberville is one of the boundaries), so that is in part why you see so many of those trashy T-shirt and souvenir shops on those blocks. Relatedly, the high rises on Canal cast wide shadows that impact lighting on the street along the 100 block. Couple these things with (until recently) an increasingly lax police presence in the area, and you get the perfect storm.
That was a fricking strike
Being a (somewhat) socially conservative welfare queen state doesn't really do much to advance us as a society.
Was your other thread (which is still on the first page of this board) no longer a sufficient forum for your vent?

re: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

Posted by brewhan davey on 3/31/25 at 5:52 pm
Loved Always Sunny’s tribute to this film (which Danny DeVito was also in) in the all-time classic episode “Sweet Dee Has a Heart Attack.”
Meanwhile, in Baton Rouge:

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When the Taliban took over in 2021 they refused to leave


Welp
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Can you even live in Orleans parish without a DUI?


The average driver in New Orleans is drunk at a baseline level.
“We all have our Achilles heel.”

What a frickin line by Rockwell right after that extraordinary overshare monologue.

re: UNO 1 @ LSU 11 Final

Posted by brewhan davey on 3/18/25 at 6:55 pm
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Holy shite that was launched


It developed its own gravitational pull