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Congratulations to MPA student, Samuel Johnson. Samuel received Honorable Mention at the 2021 Einhellig Interdisciplinary Forum (EIDF) for his presentation on "Analyzing the Efficacy of New Taxes in Nixa, Missouri."

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, talks with David about his foreign policy vision, the Johnson administration's approach to illegal drugs, and his infamous Aleppo moment.
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Stephen M. Johnson (Mercer University Law School) has posted Deregulation: Too Big for One Branch, But Maybe Not For Two (53 Seton Hall L. Rev. 839 (2023)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: When President Trump took office, he pursued...

Chicago mayor-elect Brandon Johnson started his campaign trailing in the polls with little name recognition among Chicago voters. But with the help of the Chicago Teachers Union, the former teacher and CTU organizer built a progressive movement, ultimately winning the mayor's race. Mayor-elect Johnson joined David to talk about growing up as one of 10 children, his introduction to politics, making the shift from teaching to organizing, his philosophy on public safety and policing, and what he sees for Chicago's future.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

"In the time it's going to take me to deliver this speech, we'll go up another $20 million in debt."

No matter what he does wrong – and there's a thick catalogue of wrongs – Boris Johnson thinks he can just say "sorry" and everything will be fine. But everything isn't fine and sorry won't do. Today at the Covid public inquiry, Boris Johnson said he was "deeply sorry" for the victims of Covid and […]
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No matter what he does wrong – and there's a thick catalogue of wrongs – Boris Johnson thinks he can just say "sorry" and everything will be fine. But everything isn't fine and sorry won't do. Today at the Covid public inquiry, Boris Johnson said he was "deeply sorry" for the victims of Covid and […]
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In Milwaukee, we "never defunded the police."

"Prices have increased over 17% in the last two years."

Within the past two weeks, Louisiana conservatives
have hit the jackpot. First, Republican Atty. Gen. Jeff Landry won the governorship impressively
without a runoff. Days later, GOP state Sen. Cameron Henry, in a career marked
largely with fiscal conservatism, laid claim to the state Senate presidency starting
next term. Now, Republican Rep. Mike
Johnson, from Louisiana's Congressional District 4, has
become Speaker of the House of Representatives.

It took congressional Republicans three weeks to
sort it out, but finally they settled unanimously on Johnson to take up the
gavel after three other alternatives fell a few votes short in a chamber where
the GOP has but a narrow edge. It all began when a handful of fiscal conservatives,
using a procedure inserted by former Republican speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy as a condition
of his retaining the job at the year's beginning, to vacate his position because
he didn't live up to one of his pledges to vote on appropriations bills
separately.

Let's match some questions to answers about
Johnson's rise to prominence, becoming the first Louisianan ever to hold the top spot in a chamber of Congress:

A: HumbleQ: What is the best description of Johnson's
origins? His mother delivered him in a teen marriage, and his firefighter father
was seriously injured on the job when Johnson was 12 that brought considerable hardship
to his family.

A: Charlie CookQ: Who is the second-most famous alumnus of Shreveport's Captain Shreve High School in the world of politics? Cook, longtime commentator
and editor of the Cook Political
Report, has to take a backseat now to alumnus Johnson.

A: John Breaux, J. Bennett Johnston, and Russell
LongQ: Who are the second-most prominent Louisiana
politicians who graduated from Louisiana State University's Paul M. Hebert Law Center?
Although all having held important positions in the U.S. Senate with lengthy careers
in Congress, they also now are pushed into second place by the 1998 graduate
Johnson.

A: The longest-lasting, almost a quarter-century.Q: How long-lasting has been the covenant marriage between Mike and Kelly
Johnson? They were the first couple in the state to commit to this at marriage.
Only about one
to two percent of couples choose this, which asks for agreement by the
couple for counseling and a six month delay prior to any divorce.

A: SeveralQ: How many court cases did Johnson work on for
the Alliance Defense Fund (now named the Alliance
Defending Freedom) that were successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court?
Although he worked for the northwest Louisiana Kitchens Law Firm, he affiliated
with the ADF, a leading constitutional rights law firm specializing in
religious First Amendment issues, preparing legal briefs and case material and
also worked as their spokesman. He also briefly worked for the Liberty Institute,
now known as the First Liberty Institute,
that litigates on much the same kinds of cases.

A: KBCL-AMQ: On which Shreveport radio station did Johnson
host a talk show? He did so in the early 2000s as he began to make a name for
himself in First Amendment law, when it had a news/talk/music format. It's
still on the air, 1070 on your dial (note: from 1996-2000 I hosted a talk show
on it, and appeared as a guest on its morning program typically weekly
throughout the 1990s).

A: Dean of a law schoolQ: Which job did Johnson take but ultimately
resign? Louisiana College in the latter aughts attempted to open a law school
in Shreveport. But internal politics – part of what led to a
high-profile deposing and eventual firing of the school's president – and perhaps
unrealistic expectations led
him to depart after a few years as the effort collapsed.

A: 60 percentQ: What is the least amount of the vote Johnson
has received in any contest that elected him? Twice in 2015 he won without
opposition the Louisiana House District 8 seat in Bossier Parish (as a resident
of Benton) and then a year later won his first of four terms to Congress, with
last year's election also uncontested.

A: Liberty University's Helms School of GovernmentQ: What university has Johnson taught at as
adjunct instructor? He has taught at this Christian-based school in Virginia
near Washington, DC a class
about the Constitution and free enterprise.

A: Charles Crisp, in 1891Q: Who was the least experienced speaker of the
House prior to Johnson? Crisp, a Democrat from Georgia, had served in the House
for four terms and nine months before ascending to the post, a month fewer than
Johnson.

A: ApoplecticQ: How has the mainstream, largely leftist, media
responded to Johnson's elevation? A useful summary is here,
and other headlines use the words "creep," "troubling," "tragedy," and "far-right
extremist." Observing them coping with his speakership is going to be great.

So, Rishi Sunak has today been crowned the second 'unelected' Tory Prime Minister in as many months. Is the country 'Ready for Rishi'? Well, the country has no choice. The new Prime Minister has been anointed by just 194 Conservative MPs. We don't get a say. Although in the UK we don't directly elect a Prime Minister, […]
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While much of the obvious has been covered in how
the ascension of Republican Speaker Mike Johnson to that post will
affect Louisiana politics, one under-the-radar aspect is how it can strengthen
the state's hand in the current legal tussle over congressional reapportionment.

Last
year, Louisiana, which has a black voting age population of just under a
third, enacted a plan that created one majority-minority district out of six.
Special interests sued, claiming that the Voting Rights Act, despite its explicit
statement that population proportions didn't have to be translated into proportions
of districts, required the state to have two M/M districts.

In a related Alabama case, the U.S. Supreme Court
elevated racial proportion to a preferred status among reapportionment criteria,
which include such things incumbent protection, continuity of representation, and
keeping communities of interest together. Using that as a precedent, an Eastern
District of Louisiana judge firstly threw out the enacted maps and secondly ordered
new ones be drawn.

The decisions were appealed to the Fifth Circuit,
which hasn't ruled on the former but placed a stay on the latter, saying the
former needed resolution first. The Supreme
Court this month backed the stay, using the Louisiana case as a potential vehicle
that gives the Court a chance to set parameters to its Alabama ruling.
Practically speaking, if the former ruling stands, then the Legislature could
deal with the latter next year during the regular session or in a special session
preceding it without judicial involvement.

Assuming the legal wrangling ends in time for the
change to occur next year, whatever the state's majoritarian branches do can
set an important precedent. The Alabama ruling instructed that preference
should be given to proportional use of race to ensure that roughly as many districts
proportional to a discrete minority group's proportion in the population should
exist to give that group a opportunity to elect a chosen candidate, but didn't
mandate that the proportional output should be constructed utilizing only M/M districts.

Thus, it left the door open for "opportunity
districts," or those where the minority population is sufficiently proportionally
large enough to elect a chosen candidate without being a majority, to be utilized
in this kind of mapping, subject to other reapportionment criteria. A subsequent
Alabama attempt that created one M/M and one district with about 40 percent black
population was found inadequate to meet the new criterion.

Louisiana might have the chance to define this
further, if it must come to that. In contrast to the Alabama case, creating two
rather than one M/M district does much greater violence to other
reapportionment criteria, so there would be more leeway to creating an opportunity
district instead. In fact, one bill offered during the 2022 First Extraordinary
Session of the Legislature, called for reapportionment purposes, SB 22 by Democrat
state Sen. Greg Tarver, did
precisely this in making the Fifth District – which in two M/M plans was made
narrowly the second M/M district – a bare majority white district with 43
percent black population.

The case for accepting this arrangement became
stronger with Johnson's ascending to the speakership, referring particularly to
incumbency protection. With Johnson now the most powerful and important official
in the House, it becomes more imperative to maintain a district in which he can
get elected.

Almost every
of over a dozen bills filed in sessions in 2022 to create two M/M districts made
for convoluted plans with these districts at 53 and 52 or 52 and 51 percent
black population and, as compared to the enacted plan
which largely mirrored existing boundaries, considerably altered Johnson's District
4 by chopping off its four southern-most parishes and instead pushing it to gobble
up six parishes to the east and part of Ouachita now in District 5. Tarver's
plan did worse, removing more southern parishes and spreading further east,
circling around Ouachita. Even so, Johnson's district is nearly a third populated
with blacks.

If the GOP legislative majority could swap some
things around with CD 5 – for example, some of St. Landry parish for all of
Grant – and work on CD 5's borders with other districts, this could push CD 5
above 40 percent black while adhering more closely to CD 4's pre-2022
boundaries and better protect Johnson. This would give the judiciary an interesting
test case as to just how much preference to give race when other traditional
factors loom large.

It may not come to this, but if it does, Johnson's
unexpected promotion may cause equally unanticipated permutations to Louisiana's
congressional maps.

Said Columbia University has told students, "Well, if you're Jewish, maybe you do want to stay home."

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