Major Dutch Schaefer

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Let’s vote for that spineless little pharma bitch Cassidy then….

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U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, who President Donald Trump has endorsed to be Louisiana’s next senator, did not follow a federal law that required her to report 210 individual stock trades over the past two years, according to a document she filed with Congress last month.

In 100 of those trades, Letlow reported the transactions more than a year late, according to the stock trading report – known as the Periodic Transaction Report – that she filed on Jan. 13, 2026.

In all, the trades involved stocks worth anywhere from $225,000 to $3,185,000. Members of Congress provide a range of the value for each trade.

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Under a 2012 law passed by Congress known as the STOCK Act, Letlow and all members of Congress have to report individual stock trades within 45 days of the transaction.

But the report she filed last month shows that she violated federal law by failing to do so in those 210 transactions.

That was a significant number, said Kedric Payne, the senior director of ethics at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C.

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Two more vacancies are reportedly opening at the U.S. Court of Appeals that will allow President Donald Trump to increase his footprint over the federal judiciary.

Just the News reported, “Last week, Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Cincinnati, and Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City, announced their plans to assume senior status later this year. Both judges were appointed by President George W. Bush.”

Senior status is a form of semi-retirement, and it creates a vacancy for a new appointee.

The Sixth Circuit has a Republican-appointed majority, while the Second Circuit has a one-seat majority for Democrat-appointed judges.

The Second Circuit presents a more consequential opening for Trump, “[g]iven its prominent role in cases involving financial regulation, national security, and major civil litigation, a conservative appointment could have a meaningful impact,” according to Just the News.

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A Baton Rouge court will soon be tasked with deciding whether state agents have the authority to stop hunters without suspicion on private property to ensure they have the required hunting licenses and tags.

For the past two years, an East Feliciana man has been challenging the constitutionality of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries hunting license stops on private property like the 240-acre commercial tree farm he owns in Ethel.

Thomas Manuel says gaming officials have unrestrained powers to barge onto his property for inspections under Louisiana’s “entry statute,” a law that currently allows the department to conduct searches without a warrant or probable cause. In his March 2024 lawsuit, Manuel contends the routine tag and license checks on his tree farm are an invasion of privacy, and they violate right to privacy protections in the Louisiana Constitution.

“It’s been well-established for 150 years that you need warrants to go on private land. The same as if a police officer wants to come into your backyard; they’d need a warrant first,” Manuel’s attorney, James Knight, said after a hearing last week. “Warrants are required whenever you want to go onto private property to search them. And right now, the department doesn’t do that. It just goes onto private land and roams around to see if people have committed crimes without even suspecting a specific crime.”

But state statutes give gaming officials authority to stop people on public and private lands to “see” if they’re violating wildlife law in those territories. That means game wardens can stop every hunter and check to see if they have their deer tags and hunting licenses. They can also inspect a hunter’s game to make sure they haven’t made any kills that are out of hunting season.

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Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday permanently blocked the release of Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case against President Trump.

Cannon, a Trump appointee, slammed Jack Smith for compiling the Trump report after she dismissed the case.

“Special Counsel Smith and his team went ahead for months, undeterred, preparing [the classified documents report] using discovery collected in connection with this proceeding and expending government funds in the process,” Judge Cannon wrote in a 15-page ruling.

“To say this chronology represents, at a minimum, a concerning breach of the spirit of the Dismissal Order is an understatement, if not an outright violation of it.”

“While it is true that former special counsels have released final reports at the conclusion of their work, it appears they have done so either after electing not to bring charges at all or after adjudications of guilt by plea or trial. The Court strains to find a situation in which a former special counsel has released a report after initiating criminal charges that did not result in a finding of guilt,” Cannon wrote.

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