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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • On June 20Louisiana’s ultra-conservative governor, Jeff Landry, signed House Bill 675, which dramatically restricts the ability of prisoners to seek post-conviction relief. Attorney General Liz Murrill, Landry’s close ally, had made the bill a centerpiece of her legislative agenda this session. Its passage represents a dramatic step forward in Landry and state Republicans’ broader effort to sendLouisiana’s criminal legal system back to a harsher past: speeding up executions, treating more young people as adults, and nearly eliminating parole.

    A critical aspect of this agenda has been closing off nearly every avenue available to prisoners seeking to challenge their convictions—despite ample evidence that some of these convictions are flawed. Louisiana has a long and troubling history of violating the constitution to secure guilty verdicts and allowing non-unanimous juries to convict people. The state has put scores of innocent people in prison, including on death row—grave miscarriages of justice that can take decades to undo.








  • Leslie Moonves can appreciate a Donald Trump candidacy.

    Not that the CBS executive chairman and CEO might vote for the Republican presidential frontrunner, but he likes the ad money Trump and his competitors are bringing to the network.

    “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS,” he said of the presidential race.

    Moonves called the campaign for president a “circus” full of “bomb throwing,” and he hopes it continues.

    “Most of the ads are not about issues. They’re sort of like the debates,” he said.

    “Man, who would have expected the ride we’re all having right now? … The money’s rolling in and this is fun,” he said.