Sara Cline, Author at The Rapid City Post

FILE - Republican state senator Blake Miguez converses before the swearing in of the Louisiana state legislature in Baton Rouge, La., on Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, Pool, File)

Conservative Louisiana state Sen. Blake Miguez announces bid to run for US Sen. Bill Cassidy’s seat

June 17, 2025

Louisiana state Sen. Blake Miguez, a conservative Republican, has officially launched his bid to run for U.S. Senate in 2026. Miguez served in Louisiana’s House for more than eight years and was elected to the state Senate in 2023. The champion sharpshooter has authored bills in the Statehouse that expand gun rights and Louisiana’s role in immigration enforcement. Miguez is the latest Republican to challenge incumbent GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, who has been chastised by his party for being one of seven GOP senators who voted to convict President Donald Trump during his 2021 impeachment trial.

FILE - Mifepristone tablets are seen in a Planned Parenthood clinic, July 18, 2024, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Louisiana lawmakers pass bill targeting out-of-state doctors who prescribe and mail abortion pills

June 10, 2025

Louisiana lawmakers have approved a measure that targets out-of-state doctors and activists who prescribe, sell or provide pregnancy-ending drugs to residents in the reliably red state. Louisiana law already allows women to sue doctors who perform abortions on them. But the bill approved Tuesday expands who can be sued. It includes those out of the state, who may be responsible for an illegal abortion whether that be mailing, prescribing or “coordinating the sale of” pregnancy-ending pills to someone in Louisiana. The legislation further restricts access to pregnancy-ending drugs in a state where abortions are banned with few exceptions. It now heads to Republican Gov. Jeff Landry.

FILE - In this June 29, 2020 file photo, Anti-abortion protesters wait outside the Supreme Court for a decision, in Washington on the Louisiana case, Russo v. June Medical Services LLC. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)

Louisiana lawmakers reject adding exceptions for some rape cases to abortion ban

June 3, 2025

Louisiana lawmakers have for the third consecutive year rejected a bill that would have added some rape cases to the narrow list of exceptions to the state’s abortion ban. Two Democrats sided with Republicans on Tuesday in rejecting the bill that would have allowed abortion in cases where the victim is under the age of 17 and impregnated as a result of the sexual offense. Adding exceptions to Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban has been an ongoing battle for advocates in the reliably red state that’s firmly ensconced in the Bible Belt. Tuesday’s legislative committee hearing was emotional and filled with religious themes. The measure failed on a 3-9 vote.

This image from video taken by Huntsville Police Department on May 26, 2025, shows the arrest of two New Orleans inmates who were on the run since their May 16, 2025, jailbreak. (Huntsville Police Department via AP)

New Orleans jail escapees caught following car chase in Texas; 2 inmates still on the run

May 27, 2025

Police say one of the New Orleans jail escapees who was captured on Monday was found with the help of an anonymous tip from a concerned citizen. Two others were also arrested following a car chase in Texas on Monday. Twenty-six-year-old Lenton Vanburen Jr. was found Monday evening sitting on a bench near a department store in Baton Rouge. It’s been nearly two weeks since Vanburen and nine others men broke out of a New Orleans jail after slipping out through a hole behind a toilet, scaling a fence and running for freedom. As of Tuesday morning, two of the escapees remain on the run.

FILE - Gov. Jeff Landry speaks during the start of the special session in the House Chamber on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, in Baton Rouge, La. (Michael Johnson/The Advocate via AP, Pool,File)

Louisiana Republicans reject bill that would address split jury verdicts, a Jim Crow-era practice

May 21, 2025

A Louisiana bill that would have carved out a path for incarcerated people convicted by now-banned split juries to ask for a new trial has failed. The GOP-dominated state Senate voted against the bill along party lines. The bill would have added non-unanimous jury verdicts to a list of claims for which an inmate can seek a retrial. An estimated 1,000 people behind bars in the Deep South state were convicted by non-unanimous juries, a practice rooted in racism from the era of “Jim Crow” laws and deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020.

Sara Cline.

Conservative Louisiana state Sen. Blake Miguez announces bid to run for US Sen. Bill Cassidy’s seat

Louisiana lawmakers pass bill targeting out-of-state doctors who prescribe and mail abortion pills

Louisiana lawmakers reject adding exceptions for some rape cases to abortion ban

New Orleans jail escapees caught following car chase in Texas; 2 inmates still on the run

Louisiana Republicans reject bill that would address split jury verdicts, a Jim Crow-era practice

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