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Edwards sues House GOP for trying to lift coronavirus rules

by Melinda Deslatte
| October 26, 2020 2:27 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards filed a lawsuit Monday challenging House Republicans' efforts to rescind Louisiana's statewide mask mandate, business restrictions and other limits the Democratic governor enacted to combat the coronavirus, keeping the rules in a sort of legal limbo.

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