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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of June 3

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    hungariantoast
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    Is Jeff Landry the Worst Governor in America?

    Is Jeff Landry the Worst Governor in America?

    In the first place, Landry is a cop, which is always a bad sign.

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    1. DefinitelyNotAFae
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      Wow. That's absolutely disgusting and will definitely increase incarceration. I went in not prepared to believe him worse than Abbot and Noem but here we are

      Among other things, Landry has signed laws banning parole in almost all cases, lowering the age to be tried and imprisoned as an adult to 17, and requiring prisoners to serve at least 85 percent of their sentence before early release for good behavior becomes a possibility. In the last few weeks, he’s also signed a so-called “buffer zone” law which makes it a criminal offense to stay within 25 feet of a police officer if the officer says to “back up.” This will make it a lot harder for journalists and other citizens to film cops and hold them accountable (the footage of George Floyd’s murder, for instance, was taken from just a few feet away), and make it a lot easier to arrest people on trumped-up charges. Louisiana already has one of the highest incarceration rates in the U.S., second only to Mississippi, and Landry’s governance will likely make it higher still.

      Wow. That's absolutely disgusting and will definitely increase incarceration.

      I went in not prepared to believe him worse than Abbot and Noem but here we are

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