Attorney General Wants to Hold New Orleans’ Funds Hostage for Defying Abortion Ban

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Louisiana’s Republican attorney general Jeff Landry is so outraged that New Orleans would attempt to defy the state’s abortion ban that he’s asked for funds to be withheld from the city.

Louisiana’s Republican attorney general is so outraged that New Orleans would attempt to defy the state’s abortion ban that he’s asked for funds to be withheld from the city. Attorney General Jeff Landry’s ire stems from city officials’ recent declaration that they will not enforceThe Orleans Parish attorney general

vowed not to prosecute abortion providers, and New Orleans police said that they will not investigate or arrest them, either. In his letter to the state’s treasurer, Landry said that the city is participating in “open defiance of the will of the people of Louisiana,” and that the Bond Commission should thus delay any funding applications and pause any funding that will “directly benefit” the city.

 

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Can the state actually survive if New Orleans responds and says we’re no longer sending state taxes collected your way?

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