Louisiana Attorney General LIZ MURRILL (photo courtesy of Louisiana Attorney General's Office/Facebook)
Whether the dismissal of the indictment against Liz Murrill was designed to lower the political temperature, the attorney general appears to be in no mood to adjust the proverbial thermostat.
“I certainly find it extraordinarily disturbing that a group of people in New Orleans, who still remain largely unidentified, were able to weaponize the grand jury system to indict a sitting Attorney General for something that is not a crime,” Murrill stated.
Soon after the Orleans Parish grand jury handed down its indictment, Governor Landry ordered Louisiana State Police to launch an investigation. And earlier this month, Congressman Clay Higgins sent a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, requesting that the FBI get involved.
The jury had indicted Murrill on 16 charges – eight each for public intimidation and malfeasance – in connection with letters she wrote to Moreno and other elected officials, threatening their jobs over their support of an appointment of an interim court clerk and a special election for a permanent one. Murrill says she did nothing wrong by sending those letters.
“They’re not a crime. Read the law. You can run it through Claude, ChatGPT, Westlaw; I don’t care what you do. It ain’t hard to figure out that this is not a crime,” Murrill noted.
We asked Murrill whether there was any chance that the dismissal of the indictment could have been interpreted as New Orleans’ way to lower the political temperature that had been reaching a boiling point between the city and the state. Murrill did not appear to be in any mood to turn the proverbial thermostat down.
“That dismissal of that indictment today was not an effort to simply get us all back together to be friends again. First of all, you can’t be friends with somebody who wants to put you in jail for 80 years,” Murrill said.
Murrill especially took issue with the way the grand jury went about its proceedings, noting the information leaks before the indictment was handed down.
“This was the leakiest ship you’ve ever seen. I mean, it was sinking like the Titanic, it was so leaky. There was more information that came out. All of you knew more about what was happening inside that grand jury room than I did at the time that I found out that it existed,” Murrill observed.
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