The Louisiana Legislaturehas declined to reconvene for aveto override session this year.The majority of lawmakers– 87 members of the Houseof Representatives and 29in the Senate – voted not tohold a special session in whichlawmakers try to overturn Gov.Jeff Landry’s rejection of bills.In all, the governor vetoed15 pieces of the legislation andremoved portions of threebudget proposals that legislatorscould have voted to …

(I spotted something sitting on a shelf in myoffice, a Wheaties box honoring Willis Reed that heinscribed for me. Seeing the box rekindled memoriesof an interview I had with him, a local fellowwhose NBA career was spectacular and whopassed away at age 81 in 2023. In memoryof Reed, here’s an article I wrote about myvisit with him in 2009.)Willis Reed …

Fifty Eight years. That’s how long ago it’s been sinceBrother Jimmy Swaggart’s father, also a minister, cameinto my small Ferriday law office where I was a sole practitioner,and asked me to incorporate his church. Hetold me about his son who had recently been ordained asa Pentecostal minister in the Assemblies of theLord Jesus Christ branch of the church.Young Brother Swaggart …