re: Cantrell, Avegno and city health dept sued over New Orleans’ vaccination, mask mandates.

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so we can leave it up to a liberal judge, or, our conservative legislature can fix it by adding an expiration date.

And when JBE vetoes it, we can do a veto session to override it.

Quit letting the legislature off the hook.

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I should have phrased my last post more clearly than I did. I did not mean for a court to step in and and arbitrarily fix an end date. What I meant was the court needs to declare the statute unconstitutional insofar as it allows for unending executive emergency powers by the mayor. Then, it would immediately no longer be in effect, allowing for the legislature to fix the issue in the future.

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I can see some issues with them throwing out the entire statue.

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That's not what I was advocating for; only the specific provision that does not allow for mayoral emergency orders to expire on their own.

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And if the court had the ability to cull only the non-expiration part, again, I think you are back to a legislative issue. Because by removing the expiration date, they are setting one, no?

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Correct. I agree that the legislature needs to fix the issue in the long run. But if this part is not addressed by the court first, then we are essentially in limbo until the legislature fixes it.

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And if the legislature ultimately needs to fix this (whith I think we agree on), why wait? Can the legislature amend the law and at least set a future prospective date on a current declaration?

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Because the legislative process is just that--a process. They can't just enact a law whenever they want that will immediately go into effect.

Of note, there are proposed bills for the upcoming legislative session (which convenes in March) that have been prefiled that address the governor's emergency powers under the Homeland Security Act, but the effective date for that bill, if passed, isn't until January 2024. And there is no proposed legislation yet that addresses the mayor's emergency powers under the Homeland Security Act.

Giarrusso is hands down the best judge at CDC. Unfortunately she has just recused herself because her son is on the City Council.

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Guess she had to at least keep up appearances for Little Joe.

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That plus new, arguably stricter rules governing judicial recusal in civil cases just recently went into effect.

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I reviewed the list of plaintiffs, who are all individuals. I've never heard of any of them, but it's a big group so at least they have numbers.

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Interesting how it's almost all women. I didn't recognize any either, outside a tiny handful in passing.

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It is utterly amazing that we have a mask mandate in place in Orleans Parish in February of 2022 with extremely little in the way of cases or hospitalizations.

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Clearly they didn’t get your memo about things going back to normal after people get vaccinated.

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Unfortunately she has just recused herself because her son is on the City Council.

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Zero chance it isn't thrown out quickly now and has to go through Appeals.

next to zero at least, given the Judges it could go to.

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Zero chance it isn't thrown out quickly now and has to go through Appeals.

next to zero at least, given the Judges it could go to.

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I would have to believe Landry is involved in this. I also believe the plan is for this to get to La Supreme Court. I think Landry is looking for a way to politically beat Teedy which would put him in a great position with suburban housewives who are extremely passionate about this and could really eventually help him become Governor.

you get what you vote for