Upon trying all the answers above, I found that using RequestsCookieJar instead of the regular CookieJar for subsequent requests fixed my problem.

import requests
import json

authUrl = 'https://whatever.com/login'

#The subsequent url
testUrl = 'https://whatever.com/someEndpoint'

#Whatever you are posting
login_data =  {'formPosted':'1', 'login_email':'[email protected]', 'password':'pw'}

#The auth token or any other data that we will recieve from the authRequest. 
token = ''

# Post the loginRequest
loginRequest = requests.post(authUrl,login_data)
print loginRequest.text

# Save the request content to your variable. In this case I needed a field called token. 
token = str(json.loads(loginRequest.content)['token'])
print token

# Verify successfull login
print loginRequest.status_code

#Create your RequestsCookieJar for your subsequent requests and add the cookie
jar = requests.cookies.RequestsCookieJar()
jar.set('LWSSO_COOKIE_KEY', token)

#Execute your next request(s) with the RequestCookieJar set
r = requests.get(testUrl, cookies=jar)
print(r.text)
print(r.status_code)

Upon trying all the answers above, I found that using "RequestsCookieJar" instead of the regular CookieJar for subsequent requests fixed my problem.

import requests
import json

# The Login URL
authUrl = 'https://whatever.com/login'

# The subsequent URL
testUrl = 'https://whatever.com/someEndpoint'

# Logout URL
testlogoutUrl = 'https://whatever.com/logout'

# Whatever you are posting
login_data =  {'formPosted':'1', 
               'login_email':'[email protected]', 
               'password':'pw'
               }

# The Authentication token or any other data that we will receive from the Authentication Request. 
token = ''

# Post the login Request
loginRequest = requests.post(authUrl, login_data)
print("{}".format(loginRequest.text))

# Save the request content to your variable. In this case I needed a field called token. 
token = str(json.loads(loginRequest.content)['token'])  # or ['access_token']
print("{}".format(token))

# Verify Successful login
print("{}".format(loginRequest.status_code))

# Create your Requests Cookie Jar for your subsequent requests and add the cookie
jar = requests.cookies.RequestsCookieJar()
jar.set('LWSSO_COOKIE_KEY', token)

# Execute your next request(s) with the Request Cookie Jar set
r = requests.get(testUrl, cookies=jar)
print("R.TEXT: {}".format(r.text))
print("R.STCD: {}".format(r.status_code))

# Execute your logout request(s) with the Request Cookie Jar set
r = requests.delete(testlogoutUrl, cookies=jar)
print("R.TEXT: {}".format(r.text))  # should show "Request Not Authorized"
print("R.STCD: {}".format(r.status_code))  # should show 401