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|term_end2=January 2024
|term_end2=January 2024
|preceded2=James David "Buddy" Caldwell, Sr.
|preceded2=James David "Buddy" Caldwell, Sr.
|succeeded2=Pending
|succeeded2=Liz Baker Murrill
|office3=[[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for Louisiana's<br> 3rd congressional district
|office3=[[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for Louisiana's<br> 3rd congressional district
|term_start3=January 3, 2011
|term_start3=January 3, 2011
In February 2020, a ''Baton Rouge Advocate'' investigative piece claimed that Landry and his brother had engaged in questionable hiring practices at the Cameron LNG facility in Hackberry in Cameron Parish in far southwestern Louisiana. The Louisiana Family Forum speculated that the timing of the article came to discredit Landry, as he goes before the [[United States Supreme Court]] to argue in favor of the state statute that requires doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. This case, ''June Medical Services v. Gee,''(the defendant is former state health director [[Rebekah Gee]], who is an abortion supporter), is seen as a harbinger of where the court could head on future challenges to ''[[Roe v. Wade]]''.<ref>"Family Facts: AG Landry in the News, Biology Isn't Bending," Louisiana Family Forum, February 18, 2020.</ref>
In February 2020, a ''Baton Rouge Advocate'' investigative piece claimed that Landry and his brother had engaged in questionable hiring practices at the Cameron LNG facility in Hackberry in Cameron Parish in far southwestern Louisiana. The Louisiana Family Forum speculated that the timing of the article came to discredit Landry, as he goes before the [[United States Supreme Court]] to argue in favor of the state statute that requires doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. This case, ''June Medical Services v. Gee,''(the defendant is former state health director [[Rebekah Gee]], who is an abortion supporter), is seen as a harbinger of where the court could head on future challenges to ''[[Roe v. Wade]]''.<ref>"Family Facts: AG Landry in the News, Biology Isn't Bending," Louisiana Family Forum, February 18, 2020.</ref>
==Attorney General's race heads to runoff==
==Successor elected as Attorney General==
When Landry announced for governor in 2023, a plethora of candidates ran to succeed him as attorney general, including Landry's Republican choice, Liz Baker Murrill; two other Republicans, Marty Maley and state Representative [[John Stefanski]], a Moderate Republican, and the two Democrat choices, Lindsey Cheek and Perry Walker Terrebonne. Murrill led the primary with 463,108 votes (45 percent) and will face Cheek, who drew 239,653 votes (23 percent), in the November 18 general election.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of
When Landry announced for governor in 2023, a plethora of candidates ran to succeed him as attorney general, including Landry's Republican choice, Liz Baker Murrill; two other Republicans, Marty Maley and state Representative [[John Stefanski]], a Moderate Republican, and the two Democrat choices, Lindsey Cheek and Perry Walker Terrebonne. Murrill led the primary with 463,108 votes (45 percent) and will face Cheek, who drew 239,653 votes (23 percent), in the November 18 general election.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of
State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref>
State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref> In that runoff contest Murrill was an easy winner over Lindsey Cheek, 444,081 (66 percent) to 225,011 (34 percent). She will become attorney general when Landry is inaugurated as governor on January 8, 2024.
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==References==