New Orleans Mayor Landrieu slammed as 'unprofessional' by U.S. Sen. John Kennedy in D.C. hearing

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana took repeated shots at New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu during a high-profile Senate hearing Wednesday — while also offering to broker a solution to an ongoing spat between Landrieu and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

The Landrieu administration and the federal Justice Department have been at loggerheads over the New Orleans Police Department's degree of cooperation with federal immigration agents.

Kennedy, publicly questioning Sessions in front of a packed hearing room, scolded Landrieu for the mayor's latest letter to the Justice Department — a missive Kennedy called "very unprofessional" — and suggested the city is refusing to obey federal law.

Kennedy, a St. Tammany Parish Republican, went on to read a list of supposed insults from Landrieu's letter.

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