Career
Caldwelll was elected Attorney General of Louisiana elected as a Democrat in 2007,defeating Republican Royal Alexander. [1] He became a member of the Republican Party in 2011. [2] [3] Prior to his party switch,he was the only Democratic state attorney general to challenge the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). [4]
Caldwell was reelected in the 2011 Attorney General election without opposition after his sole opponent,former U.S. Representative Joseph Cao,dropped out of the race. [4]
Caldwell lost his 2015 reelection bid to Republican Jeff Landry. [5] In 2018,the interim mayor of Tallulah,Louisiana,appointed Caldwell as interim city attorney. [6]
In 2008,the murder conviction of Angola inmate Albert Woodfox was overturned by a federal judge. Caldwell appealed the decision to overturn Woodfox's conviction,despite significant evidence that Woodfox had not committed the crime. Woodfox speculated that Caldwell may have been using the appeal in order to gain public attention for himself as the recently appointed Attorney General of Louisiana. [7] When questioned in an interview by NPR's Laura Sullivan about a bloody fingerprint found at the scene of the crime that was proven not to belong to Woodfox,Caldwell replied,"A fingerprint can come from anywhere."
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