In a hearing Wednesday on Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s push to eliminate “sanctuary” policies for immigrants in the New Orleans jail, a federal judge peppered a state lawyer with questions over what she at one point called “insufficient” arguments for the attorney general to be allowed to intervene in the case.

Now, with President Donald Trump vowing to deport some 20 million people from the U.S., conservatives in state governments are pressing the issue. With support from Gov. Jeff Landry, Murrill argues that Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office policies should be erased, after a state law passed last year that effectively banned so-called “sanctuary cities" in Louisiana. The agreement for the New Orleans jail “now sits fundamentally at odds with state law,” Murrill argues.

I didn’t even know the state law banning sanctuary cities was authored by Senator Blake Miguez, but when I read that I wasn’t even actually surprised, because of course it was. The same names are just constantly popping up in connection with this corrupt BS.

Miguez is also an official member of Landry’s Louisiana DOGE taskforce. He accidentally revealed the taskforce was meeting in secret and violating transparency laws when he posted a picture of the meeting to Facebook.

After Landry was accused of an ethics violation, Miguez also sponsored an ethics board statute that granted Landry the ability to appoint the majority of the members of the board directly, with less oversight.

Which seems like such an odd move given that Landry and Miguez both love ethics, oversight, and government accountability so much.