Defending Louisiana's anti-abortion laws cost millions, and taxpayers will foot the bill
Defending Louisiana's anti-abortion laws cost millions, and taxpayers will foot the bill.
After extensive efforts through public records requests by Ellie Schilling and investigative reporting by Mark Ballard, the extent of the State’s millions of dollars in spending to push abortion restrictions in the courts came to light. As Mark Ballard wrote: “‘These are aggressive and unnecessary challenges that’s costing taxpayers a lot of money and they don’t have a lot of success to show for it,’” said Ellie Schilling, a New Orleans commercial litigator who is recognized as one the nation’s leading authorities on reproductive rights law. She said that in addition to employing outside lawyers, Landry also assigned a brace of the Department of Justice’s 78 assistant attorney generals who deal with civil matters and whose salaries are already baked into the department’s $81.3 million budget.
