The jury room can risk becoming a mere numbers game — a race to a unanimous verdict that targets dissenting voices rather than thoroughly analyzing the testimony. But when a single juror holds out, they force evidence-driven deliberations rather than verdict-driven ones.
Journalist Emmanuel Felton talks about traveling through Louisiana’s disputed congressional district, examining the communities at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on racial gerrymandering, representation and political power.
ICE arrests in Louisiana have reached record highs, as more people without criminal histories are being detained.
Advocates celebrated the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, even after Supreme Court rulings gutted key federal protections and threw Southern congressional maps into chaos.
Louisiana's two biggest cities took different paths: New Orleans funded community programs to historic success, while Baton Rouge shifted its priorities, leaving the program with little to no funding.
Act 141 aims to protect Louisiana educators by removing students who assault school employees.
Despite 2023 law, eligible Louisiana residents must still petition and wait to clear old criminal records instead of sealing them automatically, like 14 other states do.
Black defendants face major barriers to securing representative juries, while a Lower Ninth Ward family farm wins a settlement after its property was mistakenly treated with pesticides.
