Attorney General Jeff Landry, Louisiana, is fighting back against Biden’s attempts to provide welfare to non-US citizens. The below post was made on Facebook yesterday:
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Trump agreements seek to tie Biden's hands on immigration
Attorney General Jeff Landry of Louisiana has joined several other states in signing an agreement that limits the new President’s executive orders regarding immigration.
During the Trump administration’s final weeks, the Department of Homeland Security quietly signed agreements with at least four states that threaten to temporarily derail President Joe Biden’s efforts to undo his predecessor’s immigration policies.
The agreements say Arizona, Indiana, Louisiana and Texas are entitled to a 180-day consultation period before executive branch policy changes take effect. The Biden administration rejects that argument on grounds that immigration is solely the federal government’s responsibility under the Constitution.
More on Landry’s actions regarding this agreement:
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican, signed an agreement on Dec. 15 to “stem the tide of illegal immigration,” spokesman Cory Dennis said.
“While some may attempt to blur the lines, there is a difference between legal and illegal immigration, and it is important to recognize that,” he said. “Our office will continue to be a watchdog for any changes to immigration policies that may be detrimental to the people of Louisiana.”
Read more: Trump agreements seek to tie Biden's hands on immigration
AG Landry to Meet with President Trump for Lunch Today
Attorney General Jeff Landry is scheduled to have lunch with President Donald Trump on Thursday.
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Louisiana Citizens for Job Creators: AG Landry turns on Friday Night Lights
AG Landry is used to celebrating victories in the court room, but recently, he has taken his wins to the football field!
Late last month AG Landry sent a letter to LHSAA Executive Director Eddie Bonine addressing concerns regarding allowing high school football to proceed this fall. Additionally, AG Landry was instrumental in the recent legislative hearing of the House of Representatives Education Committee where this very topic was addressed. Thanks to the efforts of AG Landry, it was announced that the Friday Night Lights are going to shine bright this fall!
High School Football is BACK!
Thank you AG Landry for fighting for Louisianians right to play high school sports! This is so much more than a game, being able to play gives students opportunities that otherwise they wouldn't have-- just ask former LSU Quarterback Joe Burrow-
President Trump's Remarks About AG Jeff Landry
President Trump makes remarks in Louisiana and recognizes Jeff Landry.
Louisiana Citizens for Job Creators: AG Landry Supports Firehouse BBQ
Attorney General Jeff Landry & Congressman Clay Higgins
Photo Source: Central City News
Earlier this week, Attorney General Jeff Landry submitted an Amicus Brief in support of Firehouse BBQ’s case against the Governor’s Mask Mandate!
As we’ve seen during this crisis, some of our politicians are willing to exert their power in any way they see fit while some seek to strike a balance between constitutional rights and public health.
Landry has proven, time after time, that our basic constitutional rights are his chief concern when it comes to restrictions on our life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Our founders wrote the Bill of Rights for a reason and last we checked, there isn't an amendment that says “all the aforementioned rights are turned off in the event of a virus.”
Jeff Landry knows the Constitution and what’s right. That’s why he’s been fighting back against any unconstitutional measures.
Here’s a quote from the brief:
This case is not about whether masks or face coverings are a good idea. It is about what the Governor and the Department of Health can do during an extended public health emergency and – importantly – how it can constitutionally do it - Jeff Landry
We are proud of AG Landry for his efforts to defend the constitution. No politician or crisis is bigger than our principles.
We applaud Jeff Landry’s support of Firehouse BBQ with his Amicus Brief!
Read the brief HERE!
Louisiana AG warns violent crime in US will each 'epidemic' levels: 'There's a tipping point that's coming in this country'
In a phone interview with Fox News, Landry said that while he has tried to be tough on crime in his state, he realized years ago that in other parts of the country there were signs that crime would reach “epidemic” levels.
"When I became attorney general back in 2016, one of the first things that we tackled was we took a very proactive fight against crime," Landry said. "I predicted four and five years ago that this country was headed towards an extreme violent crime outbreak, that it was going to become an epidemic."
Republican Attorneys General Association blasts Kamala Harris' record as California AG
Republican Attorneys General Association Chair Jeff Landry says Kamala Harris' record as California attorney general is not tough enough on crime and safety.
Louisiana Citizens for Job Creators: AG Landry Blasts Social Media Over Censorship ofAmerica's Frontline Doctors
Following the censorship of America's Frontline Doctors, AG Jeff Landry has issued a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg blasting his political bias and blatant attack on free information.
AG Landry issued a scathing letter to Zuckerberg following the censorship of a group of independent doctors who came forward at a press conference to give their take on the coronavirus. The group called America’s Frontline Doctors stood up and spoke out against the disinformation being spread by the liberal media. As usual though, the moderators over at #BigTech have removed the video and struck down anyone talking about the press conference. Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook pulled down the video from all accounts sharing it and censored those uploading the video to the platform. The other big social media platforms like Twitter and YouTube followed suit in the censorship.
“It seems you and your team at Facebook choose to censor or misuse your algorithms to downplay voices on one side of the issues while failing to do so on the other,” said Landry
The letter from the Louisiana attorney general broke down exactly what happened:
“Recently, Breitbart News and others live-streamed a group of licensed American doctors who were sharing their professional medical opinions regarding COVID-19. Apparently, Facebook made a choice to limit their voices.”
Landry concluded his letter with this pointed statement:
“You can give access to all the information available on this pandemic. You can allow users to make decisions for themselves.”
We agree with AG Landry! We need to have as much information as possible and We The People deserve to be able to make decisions for ourselves.
Thanks to AG Landry for standing up to Facebook and fighting for Free Information!
Click HERE for more information about AG Landry's letter.
Exclusive: Louisiana AG Jeff Landry Blasts Facebook Censorship of Breitbart in Letter to Zuckerberg
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has written a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, blasting the Facebook CEO and his platform for censoring medical discussion around coronavirus, in particular the censoring of a viral Breitbart News video of a press conference with frontline doctors and a member of Congress discussing responses to the virus.
“It seems you and your team at Facebook choose to censor or misuse your algorithms to downplay voices on one side of the issues while failing to do so on the other,” said Landry.
Read more: Exclusive: Louisiana AG Jeff Landry Blasts Facebook Censorship of Breitbart in Letter to Zuckerberg
State AGs Cheer Administration 'Star' Barr
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry hailed Barr for maintaining his calm demeanor as House Democrats repeatedly interrupted him with the argument they were “reclaiming my time.”
“General Barr, like our law enforcement officers battling anarchists in the streets, should be applauded for his civility and restraint in the face of an angry mob,” said Landry, “These Joe Biden voters have no interest in discourse just destruction.”
Read more: State AGs Cheer Administration 'Star' Barr
LANDRY: Letter to the Governor
AG Jeff Landry continues to explain his legal opinion on Gov. Honor Code’s mask mandate and the requirements that basically force Louisiana businesses to become enforcement agencies.
Jefferson Parish business owners sue John Bel Edwards over mask mandate, coronavirus restrictions
The plaintiffs claim their businesses were devastated by the governor's original state stay-at-home order issued in March. The latest order, they assert, will be even more destructive to their livelihoods and violates their right to peaceful assembly and free expression. It also puts business owners at risk of physical harm, as disputes over mask mandates in other parts of the country have led to violence in some cases.
The order is "unconstitutionally vague, riddled with many exceptions, many of which are subjectively determined," the suit says.
These arguments dovetail closely with — and even cite word for word at times — the opinion offered by Landry last week, who asserted that the legal foundation for the governor's July 11 order was "flimsy" and that it was "vague as to penalties and enforcement."
Read more: Jefferson Parish business owners sue John Bel Edwards over mask mandate, coronavirus restrictions
LANDRY: LETTER TO GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS ON HIS MASK MANDATE
July 20, 2020
Hon. John Bel Edwards
Post Office Box 94004
Baton Rouge, LA 70804
Dear Governor Edwards, I appreciate your deep concern over the official Opinion 20-0068 issued by the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office last week.
Shortly after we – at great cost to our economy and personal freedoms – “flattened the curve,” you surprisingly applauded extraordinarily large groups of people who were gathering in violation of practically every order you had issued to contain the virus – orders which emphasized social distancing.
While you could have applauded people exercising their Constitutional right to the freedom of speech while at the same time chastised attendees for failing to protect people from the spread of the virus, you did only the former and none of the latter.
Now, you seek to further impede the Constitutional freedoms of all Louisianans without any concrete goal or objective based on published metrics.
After seeing your lack of admonition of those violating your guidelines, surely others – especially those in similar age groups – figured that if it was okay to gather in the streets in large numbers without social distancing or other protective measures, surely it was okay to gather in large groups at locations like nightclubs and bars.
In the last few weeks, the spike of virus cases is predominantly in the same age groups we saw take to the streets and then to the nightclubs and bars. Yet, you have taken no responsibility for allowing this to happen or for cheering it on without admonitions. You did not seem greatly concerned about the possibility that these young people might go visit grandma and grandpa at the time.
The concern, under the law, is that you have seemed to pick and choose who receives the brunt of your executive authority. In place of a thoughtful use of your authority, you have decided to punish everyone not marching in the streets or destroying statues.
Now, you have placed our job creators in the crosshairs. Your mandates seek to put the burden on them to enforce your new rules. State immunity does not protect our job creators from federal civil rights claims or the myriad of other federal liabilities they may face in executing your edicts. It is simply wrong and beyond your authority.
Many citizens of Louisiana have reached out to our office with serious concerns over your decision-making on these issues. Their concerns, and my concerns, with your new mandate are not that it attempts to improve the situation we face with COVID-19; rather, it is that it does so in a manner that is destructive to the economy of our State and the livelihood of our citizens.
Thousands of small business people could lose their entire life’s work because of your indiscriminate actions. Had you made more attempts to seek consultation with others, a more rational approach could have been made.
As I have repeatedly stated, you can use a scalpel; but that would require you to take responsibility. I understand you are not interested in that as it is easier for you to turn citizen against citizen and business against customer. As to any perceived change in position, it has to do with where we are today not where we were months ago.
Things have changed. We now know the severity of this disease and how it is nowhere in the ballpark of predictions made in March, not only because of our previous actions but because the scientific data indicates this to be the case.
Like you, I trusted the data and models generated in March. But since then, they have been proven to be wrong on a scale of grand magnitude. Therefore, our response needs to change by the same degree of magnitude. By the same token, your extraordinary powers need to change by the same degree of magnitude.
I noticed in your recent letter that you did not address the issues related to your actual authority and the legal mechanism to enforce it. You also seemed to struggle with the idea that a business, or my government office as you pointed out, could choose to require the use of a mask but that your statewide government fiat is not the same. A mandate is government dictated; office policy is the choice of that private business or management of that office.
A mandate, under an emergency, should have metrics by which to advise the public on whether it has succeeded and when the supposedly temporary mandate would end. That information has not been provided either to me or my representatives who have participated in every UCG meeting which we were invited.
Unlike you, I have faith in the people of Louisiana. I think they are fully capable of making decisions and assuming risks associated with daily life. Driving to work every day is probably the most dangerous thing we do day-in-and-day-out, yet we do it routinely. We have chosen to exercise our right to assume that risk and make our livings.
Three months ago, like the two of us, the people of our State did not know or understand what they were facing. You and I stood together with them to take it on and “flatten the curve.” We did it to provide our health care professionals the ability to prepare for treatment and to establish better protocols.
Now, we must learn how to live with this. We have all been educated; this is no longer a complete unknown.
We know who is vulnerable. I think all citizens should take every measure possible to protect their own health, safety, and lives. I also believe we should give them every opportunity to do so. We should not turn neighbor against neighbor. We should not attempt to turn our job creators into state-run police. And we should be thoughtful and responsible to all, equally. You have not done so under these recent actions.
We can agree on one thing: people should take every measure to protect themselves and those with underlying health conditions should take extra precautions. People should wear masks if they deem them appropriate for the purpose of protecting themselves and others. We should encourage and educate people on their proper use. We should also educate our citizens on things they can do to boost their immune systems and stay healthy.
This virus will not disappear tomorrow, and it will be difficult – if not next to impossible – to eradicate. The American Society for Microbiology has noted that “to date, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared only 2 diseases officially eradicated: smallpox caused by variola virus (VARV) and rinderpest caused by the rinderpest virus (RPV).”
A vaccine will not 100% rid us of this China-originating plague. We need to be working on practical, achievable, and realistic practices that we can perform long-term. You have not been doing so, and that is regrettable because – without realistic and achievable goals – we will continue to be reactionary.
Finally, I must again address your false attacks on my efforts throughout this crisis. You pretend as if I have not been engaged in the process; yet you know full well that either I or a member of my staff has attended, virtually in many cases, every meeting you mentioned. We have been available as a resource if, and when, needed. And we have evaluated meticulously every one of your executive orders.
The Attorney General’s Office has been extraordinarily generous in giving you every benefit of the doubt. Yet, we cannot conclude that you are now within your authority.
I stand by my opinion. You are acting beyond your authority.
For Louisiana,
Jeff Landry
Attorney General
AG Jeff Landry on Fox News
Attorney General Jeff Landry recently was a guest on Fox News concerning his challenge to the mask mandate issued in Louisiana by our benevolent dictator, I mean Governor, John Bel Edwards. The video, with host Shannon Bream, can be found below.
Louisiana AG Landry Issues Opinion on "Honor Code" Edwards' "Mask Mandate"
Photo source: Twitter
Today, Louisiana Attorney General, Jeff Landry, issued an opinion on the “mask mandate” and closing of establishments in the state of Louisiana in response to COVID-19. Needless to say, it highlights the unconstitutionality of these mandates, calling into question the mandate’s requirements forcing businesses to become enforcement agents, questioning the “50 person limit” and singling out one type of establishment for closure, as in bars.
In essence, John Bel Edwards is not king of this state, no matter what he may think.
The opinion can be found here: AG Landry Opinion
LANDRY: Time for Legislature To Step Up
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry sent out the below tweet yesterday regarding the mask mandate issued by our benevolent dictator, er, “Governor”, Honor Code Edwards. Landry stressed the importance of the Louisiana legislature using their muscle as a coequal branch of government and issue oversight on Honor Code’s draconian measures he’s resorted to in response to COVID-19.
Liberty minded citizens of this state need to contact each one of their legislators and demand action. Sitting on hands is not the proper response to our liberties being trampled on, no matter how minimal people may feel this issue really is.
Don't force students and teachers to wear masks in school, AG Jeff Landry
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is urging the state's top school board to avoid mandating the use of face masks by students and teachers when schools reopen next month.
"We believe that mandating students to wear masks creates a situation that may cross the line on liberty, and also may become a tremendous distraction with enforcement," Landry said in his letter, which is dated July 9.
Read more: Don't force students and teachers to wear masks in school, AG Jeff Landry
Catholic Bishops’ Pro-Life Chairman Says Supreme Court Decision Continues Cruel Precedent of Prioritizing Abortion Business Interests Over Women’s Health and Safety
June 29, 2020
WASHINGTON– Today, the Supreme Court of the United States announced its decision in an abortion case out of Louisiana, June Medical Services v. Russo. The Court ruled 5 to 4 to strike down the Louisiana law that requires abortion doctors to have hospital admitting privileges. Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee for Pro-Life Activities issued the following statement:
“Abortion violently ends the life of a child, and often severely harms women. Abortion becomes even more destructive when basic health and safety standards are ignored, and profit margins are prioritized over women’s lives. As Catholics, we condemn abortion as a grave injustice that denies the fundamental human right to life. Yet even as we seek to end the brutality of legalized abortion, we still believe that the women who seek it should not be further harmed and abused by a callous, profit-driven industry.
“The Court’s failure to recognize the legitimacy of laws prioritizing women’s health and safety over abortion business interests continues a cruel precedent. As we grieve this decision and the pregnant women who will be harmed by it, we continue to pray and fight for justice for mothers and children.
“We will not rest until the day when the Supreme Court corrects the grave injustice of Roe and Casey and recognizes the Constitutional right to life for unborn human beings. And we continue to ask all people of faith to pray for women seeking abortion, often under enormous pressure, that they will find alternatives that truly value them and the lives of their children.”
The USCCB filed an amicus curae brief in the case along with the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals urging the Court to uphold the law. The brief can be viewed here: http://www.usccb.org/about/general-counsel/amicus-briefs/upload/18-1323-USCCB-amicus-June-Med-v-Gee-12-30-2019.pdf
LANDRY: SCOTUS DECISION PLACES ‘ACCESS’ TO ABORTION ABOVE HEALTH AND SAFETY
TODAY, THE SUPREME COURT CONTINUED ITS HEARTBREAKING LINE OF DECISIONS THAT PLACES ‘ACCESS’ TO ABORTION ABOVE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF WOMEN AND GIRLS.
By putting precedent over patients, Justice Roberts gave his vote to a decision that ignored the overwhelming bipartisan support of Act 620 and the extensive record of Louisiana abortion providers’ history of medical malpractice, disciplinary actions, and violations of health and safety standards.
It is deeply disappointing that the Chief Justice continues a pattern of inconsistent and groundless decisions. In his misguided effort to convince the public that the Supreme Court is not political, Justice Roberts shows how political it actually is. Just four years ago, he joined the dissenters in Hellerstedt, which struck down Texas’s law; today, the Chief Justice openly acknowledges that case was wrong but then applies it anyway. He picks and choses from a stare decisis “buffet” to avoid admitting his Court is fallible. This is not justice – this is judge-made law at its worst.
Continuing to perpetuate judge-made rules that have no constitutional basis is bad for our country. It is this egregiously wrong practice that maintained decisions like Plessy, Dred Scott, and Korematsu for so long. And it reveals how far removed the Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence has become from the rules that apply to all other litigants. We are past due for a course correction.
When laws are passed with nearly unanimous bipartisan support by the elected representatives of a state and with undisputed proof of dangerous conditions and substandard abortion providers, but they cannot survive judicial review – something is drastically wrong with the Court’s case law on this subject.
I will continue to pray for all women and girls who will be exposed to the incompetent abortionists that put profits over people; and I will keep doing all that I legally can to protect the unborn, their mothers, and all Louisiana women.”
Jeff Landry
Attorney General - State of Louisiana
