Gret Stet Senator Jay Morris hails from West Monroe in Louisiana’s peckerwood belt. He’s a real estate and mortgage lawyer whose current passion is foreclosing on Black political power via gerrymandering. He’s not only a MAGA peckerwood, he has thin skin. And that is why Louisiana State Senator Jay Morris is malaka of the week.
I had never heard of Malaka Morris until he sponsored a bill messing with the Orleans Parish clerks of court. He claimed it was a reform measure that would make the courts work more efficiently by consolidating the clerks of criminal court and civil court into one office. Instead, it was an attack on New Orleans’ unique place as Louisiana’s biggest, Blackest, and bluest city. The Black and blue bit is what MAGA Republicans like Morris dislike. The feeling is mutual, senator.
The bill passed amid controversy over Calvin Duncan who was elected clerk of criminal district court last fall. Duncan is a self-styled prison lawyer who spent 28 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. He was released in 2011 but full exoneration did not come until 2022. MAGA State Attorney General Liz Murrill insists that Duncan was never exonerated. She’s lying as one would expect from Jeff Landry’s mini-me.
Repeat after me: Liz Murrill is The Clownfish in a frock.
Morris also sponsored legislation aimed at reducing the number of judges in Orleans Parish. It’s based on dodgy and dubious data but it passed anyway. The Gret Stet lege has a Republican super-majority making it a fact free zone. The legislative malakatude, it burns.
That was Malaka Morris’ first turn in the spotlight. It’s currently trained on him as the sponsor of post Callais redistricting measures aimed at reducing the political power of Black voters. He’s offering a pupu platter of options that will:
- keep the current Congressional map
- eliminate one majority minority seat or
- both seats held by Black Democrats
Morris claims the redistricting is aimed at Democrats as allowed by Callais, not Black voters. I call bullshit: Everything in Louisiana politics is about race. It’s a state that voted for Strom Thurmond in 1948 and George Wallace 20 years later, after all.
Morris perfected his status as a master of malakatude while testifying in support of his gerrymandering bill. I’ll let Louisiana liberal firebrand Robert Mann call the action:
“Republican state Sen. Jay Morris of West Monroe decided Louisiana politics needed a little extra seasoning from the Jim Crow pantry.
At a legislative hearing on redistricting, Morris turned toward the audience and snapped at the Black executive director of the Louisiana Democratic Party: “Shut up, boy.”
Boy.
Not “sir.” Not “please be quiet.” Not even the standard legislative “the gentleman is out of order.”
Just “boy.”
In Louisiana. At the state Capitol. To a Black man. In 2026.
That’s not a dog whistle. That’s the whole kennel barking.”
Boy? Oy, just oy.
Legacy media outlets have downplayed the “shut up, boy” incident and Morris has denied saying it, choosing to lie his way through this mishigas like an ugly Bravolebrity.
The state of the Gret Stet is deplorable. After a decade of MAGA degeneracy, this sort of conduct has become acceptable. Gret Stet Republicans seem to be proud of their role as Jim Crow reenactors. They should be ashamed of themselves for their blatant racism and malevolent mendacity. I concur with Bob Mann that the Louisiana GOP has become the party of shut up boy. And that is why Gret Stet Senator Jay Morris is malaka of the week.
The last word goes to Randy Newman: