Republicans Find Home Court for Biden Suits in Western Louisiana

Conservative states jointly challenging the Biden administration have found their preferred venue and, within it, an ideal judge in a rural Louisiana farming parish where, until recently, the federal courthouse doubled as a post office.

Republican attorneys general are precisely targeting federal courthouses in western Louisiana where they see the best chance of winning, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of 239 partisan multistate cases across the past three administrations. The data was provided by Marquette University political science professor Paul Nolette.

Solid conservative majorities now control the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, ...