really upsetting coda to the case of Calvin Duncan, an exoneree who, as I wrote last month, was elected by New Orleans voters in a landslide, prompting state Republicans to pass a law *abolishing* his position:
Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the law last week
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
The legislative response to Calvin Duncan’s landslide victory has a long, shameful history in Louisiana.
So:
*Exoneree Calvin Duncan won an election for clerk of criminal court in Orleans Parish.
*The state legislature, AFTER seeing the election results, enacted a law eliminating the position.
*The Louisiana Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, has now upheld that law.
cases.justia.com/louisiana/su...
