Louisiana lawmaker expands bill to allow legislators, governor to remove supreme court justices

A Louisiana senator is proposing a state constitutional amendment to allow legislators and the governor to remove judges from the bench, all the way up to justices on the Louisiana Supreme Court.

A Senate judiciary committee voted 5-1 Tuesday in favor of Senate Bill 123, its first step in the legislative process. The proposal from Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, now heads to the full Senate for debate.

Morris heavily reworked his bill before the vote. It no longer allows the governor and lawmakers to remove district attorneys, which Morris said he would not have been able to get enough legislators to support.

Instead, the senator stretched his legislation to give state lawmakers and governor new leverage over the most powerful judges in the state.




https://lailluminator.com/2026/03/24/louisiana-lawmaker-expands-bill-to-allow-legislators-governor-to-remove-supreme-court-justices/