{"id":2634880,"date":"2026-07-24T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignlouisiana-governor-ag-model-fight-against-lawfare-after-bogus-new-orleans-indictment\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:19:50","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignlouisiana-governor-ag-model-fight-against-lawfare-after-bogus-new-orleans-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignlouisiana-governor-ag-model-fight-against-lawfare-after-bogus-new-orleans-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Governor, Attorney General Model Fight Against Bogus Lawfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignlouisiana-governor-ag-model-fight-against-lawfare-after-bogus-new-orleans-indictment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2634880&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill called for a federal investigation into alleged lawfare by New Orleans officials who indicted Murrill on 16 felony counts, including malfeasance and intimidation, after she informed city officials about legal concerns regarding their refusal to comply with state court consolidation laws. Murrill was accused of sending letters warning officials of potential removal from office and later faced a grand jury indictment,wich she claims was politically motivated and weaponized against her. The charges, which could have resulted in 80 years in prison, were eventually dismissed, but Landry and Murrill maintain that the case was a malicious prosecution intended to undermine her and others. They seek disbarment of involved lawyers and a federal probe into the circumstances. Critics argue the city officials, including the mayor, acted unethically and possibly illegally, with Murrill alleging conspiracy, civil rights violations, and other crimes. Landry criticized the media&#8217;s oversight of city corruption and proposed legislative measures to take greater control over New Orleans\u2019 judiciary.Murrill emphasized the broader implications of the case, warning that such weaponization of the justice system could threaten others, and vowed the fight is not over.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gov. Jeff Landry, R-La., and Attorney General Liz Murrill, R-La., called for a federal investigation into lawfare from officials in New Orleans who somehow secured a grand jury indictment against Murrill for sending them letters notifying them they had broken the law.<\/p>\n<p>Murrill was indicted by a grand jury in Democrat-run Orleans Parish on <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/louisiana-attorney-general-liz-murrill-charges-d481ca6adba8232a7cbf450a46e5b6b3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">16 felony counts<\/a> for malfeasance and intimidation earlier this month, facing 80 years in jail. The indictment came after Murrill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdsu.com\/article\/louisiana-attorney-general-liz-murrill-grand-jury\/71806586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">informed<\/a> New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno and other city officials that they could be removed from office if they continued to refuse to comply with a state law consolidating Orleans Parish\u2019s civil and criminal court clerks into a single position.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in New Orleans then \u201ctook it upon themselves to ignore my legal advice over and over again, and appoint someone to a fictional office that they made up the week of a statewide election for the Senate primary for the United States Senate,\u201d Murrill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bjLKyiW07cQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> at a press conference, noting that the reckless act could have interfered with the vote and \u201cundermined all of the ballots of the city of New Orleans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA group of people in New Orleans, who still remain largely unidentified, were able to weaponize the grand jury system to indict a sitting attorney general for something that is not a crime,\u201d Murrill said. She later <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AGLizMurrill\/status\/2080069419158429977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added<\/a> in a post on X, \u201cI was indicted, threatened with arrest, and given a $400,000 bond. I invite everyone to compare that bond to those routinely set in Orleans Parish by this same judge for people charged with second-degree murder. I can tell you the answer: it\u2019s about $268,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The charges were dismissed this week, but Murrill and Landry have promised, \u201cIt\u2019s not over,\u201d seeking the disbarment of the lawyers involved in lawfare and a federal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the indictment, which U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katc.com\/news\/covering-louisiana\/felony-counts-against-ag-dropped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has also called<\/a> for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many of y\u2019all actually believe that a grand jury of citizens in New Orleans spontaneously \u2026 just decided that a letter sent by the attorney general to the City Council was a criminal act?\u201d Landry said at the press conference. He went on to argue that \u201ca federal investigation is warranted, a state investigation is warranted. The judiciary commission should be investigating the judges that were involved. \u2026 J.P. [New Orleans City Council President J.P. Morrell] is a lawyer. I don\u2019t know if the conduct that he engaged in shouldn\u2019t disbar him. [Orleans Parish District Attorney] Jason Williams\u2019 conduct? He should have his law license ripped from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murrill said she believes this was a \u201cmalicious prosecution\u201d and that there are a multitude of crimes potentially committed by city officials, including, \u201cinterfering with a statewide election for federal office, conspiring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-in-supreme-court-will-hear-cases-challenging-race-based-affirmative-action\/\" title=\"JUST IN: Supreme Court Will Hear Cases Challenging Race-Based Affirmative Action\">violate civil rights laws<\/a>, conspiracy to rig a grand jury proceeding, conspiracy to interfere with a grand jury proceeding, obstruction of justice, wire fraud, injuring public records, malfeasance, and public intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malfeasance and intimidation were the two charges against Murrill, and she explained, \u201cThey came after me with an extortionate threat \u2014 a threat of actual harm to me personally \u2014 to put me in jail for telling them that I am going to carry out my official duties if I am asked to do that by the governor. That meets the definition of public intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Landry blamed the media for turning a blind eye to the corruption in New Orleans, including the lack of accountability for crimes and the spiraling criminal justice system that declines to punish anyone for crimes. He said he is mulling a special session of the legislature to look at ways lawmakers can \u201ctake more control over the court system\u201d in the city, since city officials are incapable of self-governance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case was never just about me. What happened here set a dangerous precedent that could affect anyone. That is why this is not over. This is not about anger, retaliation, or \u2018Baton Rouge versus New Orleans.\u2019 It is about ensuring our criminal justice system is never weaponized against anyone else,\u201d Murrill said on social media. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they have done is opened the door to something that could happen to anybody, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s not over,\u201d Murrill explained at the press conference. \u201cIt\u2019s not over, and it\u2019s not because I\u2019m angry; it\u2019s not because any of us want to retaliate against anybody. It\u2019s because what they did can now be weaponized and used against other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Breccan F. Thies is the White House correspondent for The Federalist. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. As an investigative journalist, he previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landry, Murrill seek federal probe over Orleans indictment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2634881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-24-151759.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[37666,36155,51050,34319],"class_list":["post-2634880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-california-politics","tag-government-accountability","tag-law-enforcement-2","tag-legal-battles"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-24-151759.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634884,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634880\/revisions\/2634884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2634881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}