An inconvenient truth is being overshadowed by an increasingly tedious melodrama between Gov. Jeff Landry and Mayor Helena Moreno, and not many of my fellow New Orleanians are willing to admit it.
It’s that the city’s court system is long overdue for a right-sizing to adjust for its roughly 25% population loss since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Until Landry and the Republican-dominated legislature forced the issue this year, status quo was permitted for two decades. As a result, local leaders lost their opportunity to shape changes to their bloated judiciary.
Unlike the other 41 state judicial districts in Louisiana, New Orleans has separate civil and criminal courts along with a host of specialty venues…