Paul Braun
Former Capitol ReporterPaul Braun was WRKF's Capitol Access reporter, from 2019 through 2023.
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The qualifying period for the Nov. 8 congressional and state elections concluded Friday at 4:30 p.m. See candidates who will be on your ballot this fall.
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The Louisiana Bond Commission made good on a threat issued by Attorney General Jeff Landry earlier this week that the state should withhold construction dollars from New Orleans unless city officials commit to enforcing the state’s abortion restrictions by delaying the city’s $39 million request for funds to improve its ailing drainage infrastructure.
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A Baton Rouge judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the state’s near-absolute abortion ban Thursday, preserving access to the procedure in the state for the time being.
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A temporary restraining order blocking the state’s near-absolute ban on abortions will remain in effect until at least one more day pending a ruling from a Baton Rouge judge.
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The Women's New Life Clinic, a crisis pregnancy center in Baton Rouge, temporarily closed Tuesday after it was vandalized overnight.
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Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear about a team of blind cyclists who tackled the world’s toughest bike race. And, we hear the latest on today’s hearing over the state’s abortion trigger laws.
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Over the holiday weekend, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry asked the state Supreme Court to lift a lower court’s temporary restraining order that is blocking the “trigger laws” that would impose a near-absolute ban on the procedure in the state.
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The United States Supreme Court intervened in the legal battle over Louisiana’s disputed congressional redistricting proposals Tuesday, pausing a federal civil rights lawsuit and ordering the state to use its controversial status-quo district maps when voters head to the polls this November.
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Louisiana’s so-called “trigger laws” that criminalized abortion procedures and shuttered the state’s clinics immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade were blocked by a state judge on Monday.
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In the hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to an abortion guaranteed for nearly 50 years, abortion-rights advocates vowed to fight the implementation and enforcement of abortion trigger laws that have banned the procedure in states like Louisiana.