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- <text id=90TT2054>
- <title>
- Aug. 06, 1990: American Notes:Louisiana
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 06, 1990 Just Who Is David Souter?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 29
- American Notes
- LOUISIANA
- Legislative Follies
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Something in the Baton Rouge air must make politicians go
- partway round the bend. Before their latest session ended, the
- state legislators pressed every hot-button issue within reach.
- They not only passed the strictest anti-abortion law adopted
- by any state since Roe v. Wade but almost passed a measure to
- encourage the beating of flag burners by reducing the penalty
- to a $25 fine. Then they approved a law requiring record
- companies to place warning labels on songs that promote deviant
- sex, violence, drug abuse, suicide, devil worship or incest.
- </p>
- <p> Thus Governor Buddy Roemer inherited some worthy
- opportunities for the veto. He used it on the abortion ban last
- week only days after thumbing down the lewd-lyrics law on the
- ground that it violated free-speech protections. The
- legislators may return to the capital Aug. 18 to consider
- whether to override the vetoes.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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