WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee forwarded Wednesday the nomination of David Courcelle as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana based in New Orleans.

The panel voted 14-8 without comment to recommend the full Senate confirm Courcelle as the lead federal law enforcement official for 13 parishes in southeast Louisiana: Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, and Washington parishes

A graduate of De La Salle High School, University of New Orleans and Loyola College of Law, Courcelle has a private law firm in Metairie. He represented two defendants accused of participating in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President

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