By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
The month of June draws to a close today with another sizzler in the forecast. Stay cool, people.
A judge has removed his court order that stopped Gov. Jeff Landry from moving ahead with his plan to provide another round of K-12 public school teacher pay stipends this year. (Greg LaRose/LAI)
By Julie O’Donoghue
A judge lifted a temporary restraining order blocking Gov. Jeff Landry’s teacher stipend strategy. It potentially ends a lawsuit three education advocates brought to challenge the governor’s executive order that put his stipend plan in motion. A spokesman for the plaintiffs said they might consider further legal action, but it would likely have to be come before Wednesday, when Landry’s plan takes effect.
A WIC child participant takes a WIC-approved product off the shelf in a grocery store in Seattle in September 2024. (USDA photo)
By Greg LaRose
A state audit found that nearly half of the federal food assistance available to Louisiana’s low-income mothers and their babies last year went unredeemed. The Louisiana Legislative Auditor, provided more than a dozen recommendations to the state health department to reach more families in need through the nutrition program for Women, Infants and Children.
Jimmie Duncan hugs his parents, Sharon and Bennie, upon his release from prison last year. (Jamal Barnes for the Innocence Project)
By Richard A. Webster, Verite
Former death row inmate Jimmie “Chris” Duncan is officially a free man following a unanimous ruling Monday by the Louisiana Supreme Court. Duncan’s conviction was based largely on now-discredited bite mark evidence. In the 28 years since Duncan’s trial, nine other prisoners have been set free after being convicted in part on inaccurate evidence from the same two forensic witnesses.
By Robbie Sequeira
The Trump administration is currently finalizing a rule that would allow public housing authorities and property owners who participate in federal housing voucher programs to impose work requirements and time limits on working-age adults who are not disabled. Housing advocates argue that the proposed rule will make it more difficult for people to keep their assistance.
By Tim Henderson
Stateline reviewed every case in a single day — June 16 — across the country, where a judge was asked to review the legality of an immigrant’s imprisonment and order a bond hearing or release. Of the cases decided that day, judges released detainees immediately or ordered bond hearings 142 times and denied them only 36 times. Many of the judges, even Republican appointees, argued that unlimited detention was unconstitutional.
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