SHREVEPORT, La. — Mike Johnson was an eager young lawyer, four years out of law school, when he stayed up until 5 a.m. one night poring over the details of a controversy roiling his hometown: the opening of a new strip club.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Fight against strip club set Speaker Mike Johnson on his moral crusade
The failed effort to block the ‘sexually oriented business’ made Johnson out as a martyr and marked his decisive move into the culture wars
November 15, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST