Stephanie Grace

The Louisiana Republican Party’s endorsements for Congress this year are mess. The irony is that it’s not at all clear that voters care which candidates the party elders favor, columnist Stephanie Grace writes.

If politicians are going to force Louisiana classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, columnist Stephanie Grace asks, then why not use their presence to teach critical thinking about the commandments — and the politics behind the mandate itself?

What’s behind Gov. Jeff Landry’s recent trashing of New Orleans? Columnist Stephanie Grace thinks he just might be gearing up for next year’s election.

There’s one way to describe Attorney General Liz Murrill’s and Gov. Jeff Landry’s approach to their fight with New Orleans leaders: Trump-style lawfare, columnist Stephanie Grace writes.

Gov. Jeff Landry may claim that New Orleans is nothing special, but his actions suggest he knows otherwise, columnist Stephanie Grace writes.

Ever since the day President Donald Trump went on social media and urged U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow to run for Senate, his endorsement has been her calling card. Letlow’s easy win in Saturday’s Republican primary runoff shows just how nationalized politics in Louisiana have become, columnist Stephanie Grace writes.

Last week, U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy seemed like he’d finally had it with the president who’d made it a mission to keep him from getting reelected. But just hours after the two got into a shouting match, Cassidy turned around and — again — made nice. Columnist Stephanie Grace wonders why the ousted senator just can’t seem to stay mad at Trump.

By all traditional measures, U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow — the chosen candidate of President Donald Trump and Gov. Jeff Landry — should be far ahead as Saturday’s Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate looms. But columnist Stephanie Grace sees signs that state Treasurer John Fleming may be nipping at her heels.

Lawmakers stuck to their plans even when constituents wanted to hit the brakes, columnist Stephanie Grace writes, in a session in which the Legislature often put their own politics first.

Julia Letlow’s Repubican Senate runoff opponent John Fleming claims, bizarrely, that the Trump-endorsed member of Congress would be another Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins. Columnist Stephanie Grace thinks that, if Letlow is elected in November, emulating the two Senate veterans actually wouldn’t be a bad idea.