Among many possible sobriquets, Attorney General Liz Murrill might be vying to become Louisiana’s “open meetings czar.”
Two suits — an August one filed against the Caddo Parish Commission and another in September against the Livingston Parish Library Board of Control — explain what I mean.
The Caddo case focuses on the commission’s passage of a resolution that welcomed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to give a talk in the city. Murrill’s suit at first focused on the Commission’s troubling practice of issuing “special resolutions” and then “ratifying” them at a later meeting. But then she amended the suit in September to note that the ratification, which was done by electronic machine vote, was improper because it was not a voice vote, as state law requires…