{"id":73040,"date":"2026-05-04T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/louisiana-republicans-eliminate-elected-office-won-by-democratic-exoneree\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:56:10","slug":"louisiana-republicans-eliminate-elected-office-won-by-democratic-exoneree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/louisiana-republicans-eliminate-elected-office-won-by-democratic-exoneree\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected office won by Democratic exoneree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Future of Calvin Duncan\u2019s position as the clerk of New Orleans\u2019 criminal district courthouse remains unclear<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana Republicans eliminated an elected position days before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/11\/calvin-duncan-new-orleans-criminal-court\">a Democratic exoneree who overwhelmingly won the New Orleans-based post<\/a> was set to take office on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A temporary restraining order did allow the exoneree, Calvin Duncan, to take office as scheduled on Monday as the clerk of New Orleans\u2019 criminal district courthouse \u2013 though it remained unclear how long his tenure may prove to be.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/04\/louisiana-republicans-eliminate-office-democratic-exoneree\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future of Calvin Duncan\u2019s position as the clerk of New Orleans\u2019 criminal district courthouse remains unclear Louisiana Republicans eliminated an elected position days before a Democratic exoneree who overwhelmingly won the New Orleans-based post was set to take office on Monday. A temporary restraining order did allow the exoneree, Calvin Duncan, to take office as &#8230; <a title=\"Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected office won by Democratic exoneree\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/louisiana-republicans-eliminate-elected-office-won-by-democratic-exoneree\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected office won by Democratic exoneree\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}