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Louisiana
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 75 stories to Louisiana since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Louisiana.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Louisiana
10 storiesLouisiana, Arkansas and Alabama sue California, New York and Massachusetts at the Supreme Court to void shield laws protecting providers who mail abortion pills.
Separate suit names 30 providers
FDA says its safety review of abortion pill mifepristone, which could end mail delivery, won't finish until March, months after the Nov. 3 midterms.
FDA nominee called pill "dangerous to women"
Type 1 diabetic Costa Rican man dies in Louisiana ICE custody after complaining of missed insulin, family says, third death there in under six months.
Inspector general flagged its medical care
Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana congressional map 6-3 and requires proof of intentional discrimination for future Voting Rights Act challenges.
Mississippi, Alabama signal swift action
Federal appeals court calls Alabama's nitrogen gas execution method intolerably cruel but lets Thursday's execution proceed.
Inmate requested firing squad instead
ICE facility in Louisiana reports its second detainee death in two months, days after an inspection found filthy conditions and excessive force.
19th death in ICE custody since January
DHS watchdog finds staff at a Louisiana ICE jail used a banned chokehold and stabbed a detainee with a pen amid unsafe, unsanitary conditions.
ICE deems chokehold a minor infraction
Louisiana legislature passes a congressional map cutting majority-Black districts from two to one, a month after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.
Likely hands Republicans six of seven seats
Louisiana House committee advances new congressional map eliminating second majority-Black district three weeks after Supreme Court's Callais ruling, hiding voided ballot counts from disclosure.
Pits Carter against Fields in primary
JAMA study finds miscarriage patients in 14 abortion-ban states get less effective treatment as doctors avoid mifepristone over criminal liability fears.
Expectant management raises hemorrhage risk
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesFederal judge rules Alabama's nitrogen gas executions cruel and unusual two days before a scheduled execution, finding the inmate's firing squad alternative feasible.
Witnesses reported gasping in seven executions
Protesters fill Tennessee and Alabama capitols as three Southern states advance maps targeting Black-majority districts a week after Louisiana ruling.
One week after SCOTUS gutted Voting Rights Act
Newsom signals California will block Louisiana's extradition request for doctor indicted on felony charges for mailing abortion pills, saying state "will not be complicit."
Charge carries up to 50 years
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