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Distracted driving is still a major factor in the increase in road fatalities in 2021. An amendment sponsored by 17 senators in the Georgia legislature, however, would loosen the rules on the state’s biggest stab at enforcing anti-texting laws. State Senator Frank Ginn (R-Danielsville) leads the bipartisan effort that would add to the exemptions in the 2018 Hands-Free Georgia Act. Their propo...

FILE - Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on pending judicial nominations on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 28, 2021. Jackson is among the women considered top prospects to replace retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and fulfill a campaign pledge Presid...

WASHINGTON — When Ketanji Brown Jackson's younger daughter was 11, she drafted a letter to the president suggesting her federal judge-mom for a vacancy on the Supreme Court. "Dear Mr. President," Leila Jackson wrote. "She's determined, honest and never breaks a promise to anyone even if there are other things she'd rather do. She can demonstrate commitment and is loyal and never brags. I thin...

FILE – Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on pending judicial nominations on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 28, 2021. Jackson is among the women considered top prospects to replace retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and fulfill a campaign pledge Presid...

Photo: Jim W. Dayberry A Mountain View man has been arrested after leading law enforcement on a high-speed chase, with speeds reaching 120 miles per hour. Thirty-five-year-old Jim W. Dayberry is facing several charges following the pursuit early on the morning of Jan. 24. According to the probable cause statement, a Stone County deputy observed a vehicle traveling at 66 miles per hour in a 5...

The Missouri Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on a Missouri law passed last year that nullifies some federal gun laws and has been criticized by law enforcement as making it more difficult to prosecute violent crime. The hearing follows a ruling by a Cole County judge last year that the law would be allowed to stand, despite an attempt to block it by the City of St. Louis, St. Louis Co...

The Missouri Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on a Missouri law passed last year that nullifies some federal gun laws and has been criticized by law enforcement as making it more difficult to prosecute violent crime. The hearing follows a ruling by a Cole County judge last year that the law would be allowed to stand, despite an attempt to block it by the City of St. Louis, St. Louis Cou...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has stood fast against prohibiting free speech at schools since 1969, extending that idea to the prohibition of banning books in 1982. In 1969’s Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the court ruled that neither students nor teachers "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." ...

Republicans liked Pennsylvania's 2019 voting reform law when they passed it in 2019. Then Trump lost. [editorial]  LNP | LancasterOnline

Israel to use anti-boycott law to freeze out Ben & Jerry's  Israel Hayom