Oliver Loughlin
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So almost immediately after Calvin winning election, the state Republican party put together some hastily proposed legislation to effectively abolish his position.
Orleans Parish is the only parish in Louisiana that has two elected offices for the clerk of court.
One is for the civil clerk, one is for the criminal clerk.
And the reason for that, and it's been in place for many, many decades,
It's just because it's the most active court system in the state.
You know, the criminal court system here sends more people to prison than anywhere else in the state.
And so the argument is they need two different clerks to administer the sheer volume of cases.
The Republican state legislature and a particular senator who is not from New Orleans who pushed this legislation argued that this was essentially a way of just streamlining the office, making some savings, which would have been, you know,
a few tens of thousands of dollars to many people and myself.
And I think we should be honest as journalists, you know, and call it out when we see it.
This was a vitriolic campaign to basically end his run for office, to subdue black political power in the city of New Orleans.
And just, again, another kind of hurdle that Calvin would have to try and overcome again in his life.
Some people, you know, it was the first time they had voted in that election when they found out that their vote basically no longer counted.
They were absolutely outraged, but also kind of felt like it fed into this long historical trajectory of attempting to neuter the power of black voters and black representatives in the South and in New Orleans, in Louisiana.
As this law was being passed through the Republican state legislature, Calvin basically, you know, attempted to fight back again, as he always does.
He countersued trying to prove that, you know,
You know, this new law was unconstitutional.
There were mechanisms that the city set up to try and, you know, redo the election under the consolidated position.
And all the while this was happening, Calvin just sort of saw straight through it and went and took what was essentially a symbolic swearing-in ceremony in front of the court steps where he had once been tried and sent away to prison for the rest of his life.
And then a few weeks later, when there was a lull in this litigation fight that was going on, he took office.
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