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Advocates fear new voting restrictions could disproportionately impact people with disabilities. One study found the share of people with disabilities who reported voting problems dropped in 2020 because of pandemic-fueled election changes that made it easier to vote. In 2021 alone, elected officials in 19 states – including Arizona, Texas, Georgia and Florida – adopted new voting restrictio...

Elliot Long is a trans father of a first grader in Spring Hill. Elliot Long says that he and his family have thought about leaving Florida, but realized that staying and “fighting the good fight” would be more impactful. Elliot Long is a transgender father of a first grader who attends Classical Preparatory School in Spring Hill, where Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the controversial Parental Rig...

Law scholar and University of Pennsylvania professor Dorothy E. Roberts (Courtesy of Stanford School of Medicine) The use of the concept of biological race in biomedicine systematically harms marginalized racial groups, said Dorothy E. Roberts, a professor of law and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, in a Thursday lecture. Co-hosted by the Department of Genetics at the Stanford Sch...

Ohio Redistricting Commission co-chair state Sen. Vernon Sykes talks to Senate President Matt Huffman during Sunday’s meeting of the ORC. The commission ended up throwing out independent mapmaker work and adopting a slightly revised version of the third map, already rejected by the Ohio Supreme Court. (Photo: Susan Tebben, OCJ) As lawmakers consider their next move on redistricting, the overa...

A woman, who appeared intoxicated, reportedly yelled from her balcony at another woman out walking her dog, saying, “Don’t talk to my husband like that, or I’ll beat your (expletive).” The dog walker called the Kalispell Police Department to report the incident and said she didn’t know the woman and hadn’t said anything to her husband. A blonde woman wearing a bandanna around her head was all...

Credit: Martha Stewart It’s not often that a favorite Harvard professor will remind you never to wash your vegetables with soap. Or to order scallops at a VIP dinner whenever possible. Or to make sure that all your public addresses are under a half-hour long. Those were a few of the insights that Harvard Law School Professor Maureen (Molly) Brady offered in a Last Lecture to graduating Harvar...

A date for sentencing — and a sexually violent predator hearing — have been set against a Megan’s Law sexual offender who pleaded guilty to aggravated indecent assault of a child. Richard D. Barrett, 56, currently incarcerated in the county jail, pleaded guilty to a sole count of aggravated indecent assault of a child back in January. The hearing and sentencing had been scheduled for Thursday...

Iowans have “no reasonable expectation of privacy in garbage placed outside of the person’s residence for waste collection in a publicly accessible area,” according to a bill Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law on April 21. Lawmakers approved Senate File 2296 in response to a June 2021 Iowa Supreme Court ruling, which declared warrantless garbage searches unconstitutional. Whether the new l...

The Martin County Sheriff’s Office reports of incidents include: April 11 A deer wreck was reported at N.C. 125 and N.C. 142 in Robersonville. Extortion/blackmail was reported at 1980 Rogerson Rd. in Robersonville. Communicating threats was reported at 5100 Prison Camp Rd. in Williamston. An order of arrest was reported at 305 East Main St. in Williamston. Warrant service other jurisdiction w...

Photo Submitted Second-year law student Joshua Clem has been selected as the 2022 Squire Patton Boggs Foundation Sustained Impact Veterans' Justice Fellow. He was selected from a large pool of highly qualified law students from across the country. As a Fellow, Clem will have the opportunity to work with Swords to Plowshares, a community non-profit organization that has helped veterans since 1...