{"id":75688,"date":"2026-07-03T10:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/louisiana-court-halts-criminal-indictment-against-state-attorney-general\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:57:15","slug":"louisiana-court-halts-criminal-indictment-against-state-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/louisiana-court-halts-criminal-indictment-against-state-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana court halts criminal indictment against state attorney general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Liz Murrill was indicted for the alleged intimidation of New Orleans elected officials<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Louisiana\u2019s highest court has granted a stay of the proceedings in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/02\/louisiana-republican-attorney-general-liz-murrill\">criminal indictment<\/a> targeting the state\u2019s attorney general, in the latest twist of a high-stakes political battle between Republican state leaders and Democrats who govern its most famous city, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-orleans\">New Orleans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Murrill, a Republican who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/louisiana\">Louisiana<\/a>\u2019s first female attorney general, was slapped with a 16-count indictment on Thursday by a New Orleans grand jury charging her with intimidation and malfeasance. The charges effectively accused her of trying to intimidate New Orleans officials who fought a law passed by Republican legislators to overhaul the city\u2019s courts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/03\/louisiana-criminal-indictment-halted-attorney-general-liz-murrill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Liz Murrill was indicted for the alleged intimidation of New Orleans elected officials Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Louisiana\u2019s highest court has granted a stay of the proceedings in a criminal indictment targeting the state\u2019s attorney general, in the latest twist of a high-stakes political battle between Republican state leaders &#8230; <a title=\"Louisiana court halts criminal indictment against state attorney general\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/louisiana-court-halts-criminal-indictment-against-state-attorney-general\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Louisiana court halts criminal indictment against state attorney general\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75688","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\/75688","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=75688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}