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GOP lawmakers seek to keep Louisiana pastor from prosecution

by Associated Press
| October 7, 2020 12:27 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republican Louisiana lawmakers trying to chisel away at Gov. John Bel Edwards' coronavirus restrictions Wednesday sought to protect a Baton Rouge area pastor charged with violating those rules and advanced legislation that would keep emergency orders from governing churches.

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