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USURPERS
A rogue New Orleans grand jury indicted Louisiana’s Attorney General over a single word — “usurpers.” The reason Democrats lost their minds is buried in a 153-year-old Easter Sunday massacre.
Good morning, loyal C&C supporters, it’s Sunday! I hope you all enjoyed a spectacular, firework-filled Independence Day and managed to keep all your digits attached. The news cycle certainly brought the fireworks this weekend— a fascinating, complicated story bubbling out of Louisiana. Understanding what’s REALLY going on required a deep dive. I uncovered a shocking true story that is even more bizarre and historically significant than the parts we CAN see. Today, we connect a hidden history lesson from the Bayou to a very public political knife fight that just resulted in a sitting Republican Attorney General getting indicted by a ‘rogue’ grand jury in New Orleans, a judge ordering reporters to be arrested, and the political version of an insurrection.
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Good luck finding the real story in our ‘prize-winning’ media. Unsurprisingly, corporate media doubled down on its uselessness. Possibly it was because Democrats just performed one of the greatest acts of self-owning since self-owning was invented, snatching political defeat from the jaws of narrative victory. On Friday, the New York Times revealed the iceberg’s tip of drama, reporting, “Louisiana Supreme Court Pauses Case Against State Attorney General.”
Liz Murrill is Louisiana’s Republican Attorney General— a longtime ally to Governor Jeff Landry. On Tuesday, without warning, as if from nowhere, like some kind of dark progressive hocus-pocus, a blitzkrieg of reactionary lawfare unleashed.
Here’s the thing: Before her insta-indictment, not one law enforcement agency was investigating AG Murrill. Nobody referred her for prosecution.
Not the FBI, IRS, SEC, or DHS; not the Louisiana State Police, the New Orleans P.D., or even the library’s overdue book fine collector. There was no investigation. Despite that, and like magic, on Wednesday, a New Orleans grand jury —sitting on completely unrelated, garden-variety criminal cases— allegedly decided on its own initiative to criminally indict the Republican Attorney General under sixteen different counts.
Then, despite the unicorn-like circumstances, a New Orleans judge promptly issued a warrant for her arrest. Take that!
This week’s furious and historic lawfare was generated by a single word in an official letter decorated with Liz Murrill’s signature. That trigger word, a bloody invocation literally carved in Louisiana stone, was usurpation. Seeing the word made New Orleans’ Democrat officials see red. They lost their minds.
? New Orleans is a Cajun cesspool of Democrat corruption that makes Chicago blush. It hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1872 (for a good reason— remember that date). The current mayor, LaToya Cantrell, is on her second term and squats under her own corruption cloud: she was formally censured by the state ethics board in 2022 over $29,000 in first-class flight upgrades— LaToya stonewalled for weeks before repaying the city under pressure.
The City’s DA, Jason Williams, was himself indicted on federal tax fraud charges in 2020— he was later acquitted in 2022 under Biden, but the optics of a criminally charged DA recusing himself from a criminal investigation he personally benefited from are, let’s say, pretty rich. (He’s wisely trying to stay out of the unfolding catastrophe.)
New Orleans’ murder rate consistently ranks among the highest in the country. Its public schools have been in state receivership. It is a septic boulliabase of grift, nepotism, woke politics, and election irregularity. Its infrastructure is legendary in its dysfunction. Remember Hurricane Katrina’s broken levees? An apt metaphor for the entire, corrupt city.
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And, this is the critical part, New Orleans is the blue heart of Democrat resistance in the Crawdad State and therefore a prime target for reform efforts by the state’s brand-new (2023) Republican supermajority and its Republican governor.
“The charges against Murrill,” the Times explained, “are the latest move in a long and convoluted conflict between left-leaning New Orleans and Louisiana’s conservative state leaders who have sought to exert their power over the city, most recently with sweeping changes to its judicial system.”
In regular English, Republicans are trying to reform New Orleans’ profoundly corrupt legal system. That corrupt legal system just struck back. The irony is that Democrats were winning the narrative war, but threw it all away in a violent temper tantrum when they saw the word usurper in Murrill’s letter.
Jump in the hot tub time machine with me. We’re heading back to the Reconstruction era of 1872— the last year New Orleans enjoyed a Republican mayor.
In that year, Louisiana held a gubernatorial election so fractious and contested that the state ended up with two functioning, rival governments simultaneously, one Democrat, one Republican. The state had two governors, two legislatures, and two sets of officials— all claiming legitimacy at the same time. It got bloody.
In rural Grant Parish, the claimant to the sheriff’s office, a white Republican, Daniel Wesley Shaw, had been lawfully elected by the majority-black district. When rumors spread that white Democrats were planning to seize the courthouse by force, local Republicans (mostly black) decided not to wait around to be dispossessed. In March 1873, they occupied the Grant Parish courthouse and began preparing for violence.
They dug Civil War-style trenches around the courthouse building. They practiced. They brought their wives and children inside the courthouse for protection. They held the courthouse for three weeks, anxiously waiting for the Democrat boot to drop. The women and children slept on the courthouse floor while their husbands and fathers kept watch at the earthworks outside.
The Republican militiamen had muskets. Their Democrat opponents were busily acquiring something considerably more persuasive: a four-pound cannon capable of firing iron slugs.
On Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, Christopher Nash — a former Confederate officer— led more than 300 armed white Democrats toward the courthouse. Most were on horseback. Most were Civil War veterans. Nash gave the women and children thirty minutes to leave, then opened fire.
The battle lasted several hours. When Nash’s men rolled the cannon to the rear of the building and opened up, the defenders panicked. Some ran for the river. Nash sent horsemen after them and killed most of them on the spot. Those who remained raised white flags— one made from a shirt, another from a torn page of a book.
The shooting stopped. The defenders threw down their weapons and came outside.
What happened next is historically undisputed. It’s just not taught in our public schools. About 50 black Republicans were taken prisoner and held under guard through the afternoon. That night, their captors— filled with liquid courage — marched them away in pairs and shot them in the back of the head. They burned the courthouse to the ground. They threw the bodies of the executed into the Red River.
When federal troops dispatched by President Grant arrived a few days later, they found the smoking ruins and the bodies of men with their throats cut and their skulls beaten beyond recognition. The official military report identified 88 black men by name who had died, three white Republicans, and estimated another 15 to 20 had been pulled from the river.
Republicans call it the Colfax Massacre. Democrats remember it as the “Colfax Riot.” The state’s 1950 historical marker pegged the total number slain at 150. Historian Eric Foner called it “the bloodiest single instance of racial carnage in the Reconstruction era.”
Weird that you’ve never heard about it, right?
Grant’s federal government prosecuted the perpetrators under the Enforcement Acts. A liberal Supreme Court threw out the convictions in United States v. Cruikshank (1876), ruling that the Fourteenth Amendment only restrained state governments, not private citizens— meaning the federal government had no jurisdiction to prosecute a mob that massacred a hundred men. The killers went free.
The Supreme Court’s message was received across the South with perfect clarity. The violence predictably spread.
Eighteen months later, the Colfax lesson was applied at scale. In September 1874, the White League —described by historians as “the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party”— staged an armed insurrection not in a rural parish but in the streets of New Orleans itself. Insurrectionists! Five thousand White League members routed the Metropolitan Police, occupied the statehouse, the arsenal, and City Hall, and held them for three days. See? Despite their feigned confusion over January 6th’s unarmed tourists, Democrats know perfectly well what a real insurrection looks like.
A specially created federal Electoral Commission voted 8-7 on straight party lines to award all disputed votes to Rutherford Hayes. Democrats in the House threatened to filibuster the final electoral count and block the inauguration entirely. If this doesn’t rhyme with 2020, I don’t know what to tell you.
The deadlock was finally brokered in a cigar-smoke-filled Washington hotel room: Democrats accepted Hayes as president; Hayes agreed to withdraw all remaining federal troops from the South. Within weeks of his inauguration, the troops left New Orleans. The Louisiana Reconstruction government collapsed almost immediately.
The Democrats took power and held it, without meaningful interruption, for nearly a century. Entitlement. That deal, the deal to resolve a contested presidential election, is the reason New Orleans hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1872.
? In 1932, a commission of White League descendants —appointed by the mayor of New Orleans— added an inscription to an obelisk at the foot of Canal Street memorializing the 1872 massacre. It read:
“McEnery and Penn, having been elected governor and lieutenant-governor by the white people, were duly installed by this overthrow of carpetbag government, ousting the usurpers, Governor Kellogg (white) and Lieutenant-Governor Antoine (colored). United States troops took over the state government and reinstated the usurpers, but the national election of November 1876 recognized white supremacy in the South and gave us our state.”
Note the parentheticals, which were in the original inscription: (white) and (colored). The inscription did not merely celebrate a political victory. It was a taxonomy. And then, note the words Democrats chose for the lawfully certified winners of the 1872 election— the Republicans who had been inaugurated, who held office, and who were recognized by the federal government: usurpers.
That word burned brightly on a monument at the foot of Canal Street for eighty-five years. The obelisk was finally removed in 2017— by workers wearing body armor and masks, under police sniper cover and cover of darkness in the middle of the night— because the threats of violence against anyone who touched it were credible enough that the city couldn’t do the job in daylight
Hang on to that word usurper. It’s about to make a spectacular comeback.
? Fast forward back to 2026. The political map in Louisiana is finally completely flipped. Republicans control the statehouse in Baton Rouge, and Democrats control New Orleans. Governor Jeff Landry and his legislative supermajority have embarked on a massive project to remake the New Orleans courts, arguing the city’s justice system is plagued by dysfunction and corruption.
Their legislative package was pretty ambitious. They passed bills to cut nine judges in Orleans courts, eliminate two N.O. judges from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and consolidate the city’s criminal, civil, and juvenile courts entirely.
Every single one of those offices is held by a Democrat.
But the tip of the spear —and the catalyst for the explosion that happened this weekend— was a lightning rod of a man named Calvin Duncan.
Duncan was, frankly, the most sympathetic political opponent the Republicans could have possibly faced. He spent 28 years in Angola prison for a 1981 murder it now appears he didn’t commit. While inside, he became a brilliant jailhouse lawyer and was the driving force behind a 2020 Supreme Court decision that ended non-unanimous jury convictions— a Jim Crow-era practice passed by Louisiana Democrats in 1898 and preserved for decades.
Duncan was released in 2011 on a guilty plea deal —a plea to which he now says he only agreed to get out of prison— and was formally exonerated by a sympathetic judge in 2021. Last November, 2025, Duncan ran for Clerk of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court on a platform of transparency and making records accessible to the incarcerated.
He won in a landslide with 68% of the vote.
Ironically, Calvin Duncan is a living, breathing rebuke to Louisiana Democrats’ criminal justice system, about to take charge of its records and —bizarrely— New Orleans’ elections, since the criminal clerk was, for some reason, also the city’s elections supervisor. (Yes, really.)
State Republicans were appalled. So they arguably overreacted. They abolished his office.
? Just days before Duncan was to be sworn in, the legislature passed Senate Bill 256, merging the criminal and civil clerk offices and declaring the current civil clerk — a moderate Democrat— the new consolidated clerk.
It was well-intentioned but politically weak.
The bill’s author, a rural Republican senator from West Monroe, admitted on the floor that he had no study, no data, and no fiscal note showing the consolidation would save money or improve efficiency. He admitted he had never even spoken to Duncan or the Orleans judges. He even amended the bill to take effect immediately upon the governor’s signature, explaining, in what can only be described as a Wile E. Coyote self-own: “Otherwise, we’d probably have to pay him for four years in a job that’s going to be eliminated.”
The Louisiana Supreme Court narrowly upheld the law in a 4-3 decision. Duncan was stripped of his office after serving for exactly three hours. Advantage: Democrats.
This is where the story should have ended, with Republicans securing a brutal, legally sanctioned but tainted victory, and the New Orleans Democrats retaining the moral high ground and a powerful national narrative about disenfranchisement.
Instead, the New Orleans Democrats decided to light their own courthouse on fire.
The New Orleans City Council voted 5-2 on May 11 to abolish the current civil clerk, appoint an interim clerk, and call a special election for the new consolidated office, arguing a vacancy existed because the civil clerk had never been elected to the combined role.
They did this despite receiving a warning letter from Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill. Murrill warned that the council’s actions were “legally misguided and irresponsible.” She threatened to invoke Louisiana’s usurper statutes —that’s where that word appeared— to remove the mayor, the DA, and the council members from office if they proceeded.
“Louisiana’s usurper laws carry serious consequences,” Murrill wrote, “and I will enforce them.”
The city council voted anyway. And then the Orleans Parish criminal justice system decided to prove Governor Landry right and establish beyond any doubt just how corrupt New Orleans’ court system was.
? On Thursday, right before the holiday weekend, without any predicate referral or even an investigation, an Orleans Parish grand jury handed up a 16-count felony indictment against Attorney General Liz Murrill —eight counts of public intimidation and eight counts of malfeasance in office— based entirely on one sentence in her warning letter. The sentence including that word.
The process was a masterclass in how to validate your opponent’s worst accusations. The DA, Jason Williams, recused himself because he was one of the officials Murrill threatened. According to Democrat officials, the grand jury supposedly initiated the investigation “on its own accord”—a ridiculous fairy tale of virgin birth that no one with even a passing knowledge of the legal system believes.
A local judge appointed a special prosecutor, Laurie White, who happened to be Calvin Duncan’s former attorney. Oh— and White’s office is currently being defended by AG Murrill’s office in an unrelated civil sexual harassment lawsuit. You cannot make this stuff up.
But the pièce de résistance happened at the courthouse. State law explicitly requires grand jury indictments to be returned in open court. The judge sealed the courtroom anyway, without explanation. When reporters waited in the hallway, a dozen armed sheriff’s deputies flooded the corridor.
Then a First Amendment attorney arrived with a written motion to open the courtroom— her legal right and her professional obligation. A deputy threatened, “I’m gonna start cuffing people if y’all don’t move.” Cops then handcuffed the attorney and a WWL-TV reporter for standing in a public courthouse hallway and attempting to file a motion— on, they said, the judge’s order. (He denies it now.)
Afterward, Special Prosecutor White stood on the courthouse steps, defended the handcuffing of journalists, and publicly lamented taking the case, saying her ego got her into the middle of it. When asked about Governor Landry’s promise to pardon Murrill —“I will pardon her as fast as the law allows,” he said— White snapped: “Well, good. Let’s get her convicted, then get a pardon.”
That is the special prosecutor, on the courthouse steps, conceding that a pardon will follow her own prosecution. It was theater of the absurd.
The Louisiana Supreme Court stepped in within 24 hours, stayed the indictment, and noted it “appears to turn the law on its head.” They flagged the procedural defects, the handcuffed journalists, and White’s glaring conflicts of interest.
Then, stupefyingly, the local court refused to recall the arrest warrant.
The Supreme Court acted within hours. It ordered the arrest warrant recalled anyway. Needless to say, a lower court openly defying a Supreme Court order is not exactly a routine practice.
The New Orleans Democrats had a clean, sympathetic legal fight on their hands with Calvin Duncan as their standard-bearer. Instead, they handed the Republicans a magical 16-count indictment, an illegally sealed courtroom, handcuffed journalists, a special prosecutor with massive conflicts, and a lower court defying the state’s highest bench.
In other words, Democrats just handed Governor Landry the ultimate political permission slip. He’d long argued the New Orleans courts were broken and corrupt. The New Orleans Democrats just proved it for him, on camera and in writing, right before the Fourth of July. The remaining legislative package —the judge cuts, the court consolidations, the appellate seat reductions— was stalled in part because of the Calvin Duncan optics.
Those optics are now largely neutralized. Any Republican legislator who was hesitating to vote for further New Orleans court restructuring now has a ready answer for constituents: Did you see what they just did to the AG?
Democrats torched all their political capital because they were reminded of what they did in 1872 by a single word in a short official letter: usurpers. It was a legacy celebrated on their monument till the wee hours of 2017, and which they’ve desperately tried to bury in a shallow, unmarked grave since the Civil Rights era.
Their fevered calculation must have been that anything was better than a slate of New Orleans Democrats being prosecuted as usurpers. They couldn’t stand for it. And so, behold: a magical indictment, lawless judges, journalist arrests, and a miniature civil war between the courts.
? And there you have it— the whole sordid backstory. The astonishing backstory that the corporate media will never describe. The historic backstory that hot takes on social media fail to fully flesh out, even if they are directionally right. Now you know it.
Welcome to 2026, as the real insurrectionists finally emerge from deep cover. I cannot help but imagine that this Cajun story is a metaphor for our national politics. The word that Democrats used snipers and body armor to erase in 2017 just miraculously indicted a state Attorney General. The ghost of their buried monument is talking again.
The next four months are going to be off the chains. Get popping.
This is no different than what goes on in the halls of Congress…
YES IT IS..IT IS WAY DIFFERENT …WAY WORSE….