As soon as news broke last week that a New Orleans grand jury had indicted Attorney General Liz Murrill, Gov. Jeff Landry took to social media, promising to pardon her.
Murrill “will not have to worry about having her reputation tarnished by this kangaroo grand jury or the Orleans Kangaroo court as I will pardon her as fast as the law allows,” Landry wrote in a July 2 post on X. “The criminal justice system is a circus at its finest in Orleans and we will not have any of that!”
But pardoning Murrill — who faces eight counts of intimidation and eight more of malfeasance, but whose indictment has been stayed by the Louisiana Supreme Court — may not be as simple as it sounds…