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Internet Slams Man for Stealing Sentimental Baby Name From Brother-in-Law  Newsweek

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick slams new Harris County law enforcement budget plan  Chron

FILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a rally in support of President Donald Trump called the "Save America Rally" in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. A district attorney says Paxton violated the state's open records laws by withholding or failing to retain his communications relating to his appearance at a pro-Trump rally that preceded the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol last year. (...

Independent Lens and the Courier Journal worked together on creating a multimedia series investigating Kentucky's persistent felony offender law. Photo: Independent Lens In case you missed it, PBS’ Emmy Award-winning documentary series Independent Lens and the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Courier Journal have launched a multimedia investigative series looking at Kentucky’s Persistent Felony Offende...

Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office urged the Florida Supreme Court late Monday to reject challenges to a 2011 state law that threatens stiff penalties if city and county officials pass gun-related regulations. Lawyers in Moody’s office asked the Supreme Court to uphold a decision last year by the 1st District Court of Appeal that turned down arguments by more than 30 local governments and...

Adobe Stock photo The voter-approved Marsy’s Law amendment included a series of protections for crime victims. Volusia County Sheriff Michael Chitwood received approval Monday, Feb. 14, from the Florida Supreme Court to file a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that a 2018 constitutional amendment known as “Marsy’s Law” should not apply to law-enforcement officers. The approval came after the ...

Georgetown University has been taking heat after one of its law professors used a racist term to call on a student—in front of an entire class. In a video that has since gone viral with more than 100,000 views on social media, Georgetown Law Professor Franz Werro is seen sitting at his desk during a lecture on international contracts and sales law on Feb. 10. “So any other surprise or…? What ...

Denying Vote to People With Criminal Convictions Violates International Human Rights Law, Says NJ Institute for Social Justice in Brief to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Amici Brief Filed on Behalf of 13 Civil Rights Organizations Throughout U.S. NEWARK – The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and the law firm of Gibbons P.C. today submitted an amici curiae brief to the Inter-...

Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) violated a federal conflicts of interest law by failing to report stock transactions by a mandated deadline, but he will not be fined because he disclosed the trades within a "grace period." Schrader’s financial transaction report filed on Feb. 7 showed that the congressman sold shares of Charter Communications, Inc. and AON PLC, a company that assists insurance ca...

What are you reading? The two men could hardly have been more different: Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted was a taciturn perfectionist, while architect Henry Hobson Richardson was outgoing and well liked. Yet their friendship shaped the direction of American design in the mid-to-late-19th century, and their work influenced the evolution of cities and suburbs. It’s not clear how Olmst...