New Orleans Mayor Takes Legal Action Against Recall Campaign.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has filed a lawsuit seeking to throw out a deal between the Secretary of State and the group seeking to recall her from office. The deal between the two sides lowered the number of recall petition signatures needed to trigger a recall election by essentially reducing the number of “active” voters on the Orleans Parish rolls. Cantrell’s filing alleges that the Secretary of State was “exercising a power not bestowed on him” and in doing so “usurped powers specially reserved to the Louisiana legislature.”