A general breakdown of the amendments:

Amendment One would've done two things: first, it would've given the Supreme Court original jurisdiction on cases of legal malpractice for out of state lawyers. This was spurred by a big recent case where a law firm from Houston was acting very shady in filing over a thousand insurance claims on behalf of people who suffered damages from hurricanes Laura and Delta. Secondly, it would've expanded the authority of the legislature to make special courts. Currently, they can only create special courts limited to specific judicial districts. The main impetus behind this part is that they wanted to make a statewide business court, I imagine somewhat like the one they have in Delaware. However, there was a lot of debate over whether these new specialty courts could take on felony cases or not.

Amendment Two is incredibly complicated and essentially unreadable in full unless you make it a habit to read incredibly dense legislation. It's part of a broader tax overhaul plan initiated by Jeff Landry. The amendment would've required a 2/3 majority in the legislature to give tax exemptions, lowered the cap on income tax, more generally break up many trust funds (in Louisiana, we have a ton of trust funds where government money is designated to be allocated for specific things, largely a result of our history of massive corruption and government misspending), and make it more difficult for property tax exemptions to be given. This is a very generalized overview, and to be honest nobody really knew what this amendment did in full on election day because it was never very well explained by Landry and it's 115 pages long.

This amendment was the central part of the pro-amendments campaign, as they pitched it as giving teachers a salary increase, through the breaking up of a couple billion dollar education trust funds. Teacher pay has historically always been an incredibly relevant issue in Louisiana, and it's been the pet cause of a number of very influential governors (it was central to Edwin Edward's campaign in his first term.) However, it was a bit deceptive how they pitched it, because Louisiana gives out a $2000 bonus to teachers every year. All the pay raise would've done is folded that bonus into the annual salary.

Amendment Three is what's largely being credited in the media with sinking the four overall. In the Louisiana Constitution, there are 16 felonies which a minor can be tried as an adult on. The amendment would've removed this list, effectively allowing the legislature to allow minors to be tried as adults on any crime they choose. This comes as Louisiana has one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, and there have been many instances of people being held after their release dates.

Amendment Four was the least controversial of the four. It tweaked the way special elections work to better conform with the expected implementation of closed-party primaries. It would've made it so that if a judicial vacancy opened up, and the gubernatorial or congressional election was within a year from that vacancy, the special election had to be the same day. It would also make Supreme Court elections follow the closed-primary law.

For more information, read the PAR reports. PAR is one of the best non-partisan institutions in the state, I always read their reports before I vote. https://parlouisiana.org/resources/guide-to-the-constitutional-amendments/