DAY IN COURT - Attorneys for La. Governor John Bel Edwards and State Attorney General Jeff Landry went to court in Baton Rouge Wednesday to argue about the Governor's executive order issued in April prohibiting discrimination in government and state contracts based on sexual orientation and gender identity, with an exception for contractors that are religious organizations.
Landry says the order is unconstitutional because it seeks to establish a new protected class of people that doesn't exist in law and that lawmakers refused to add. The Republican attorney general wants an injunction against the order, and he's stalled legal contracts that contain the anti-discrimination language.
Edwards says Landry is exceeding his authority.
