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October 29, 2021

Shots fired near law enforcement for a second night in a row in El Mirage - Arizona's Family

Shots fired near law enforcement for a second night in a row in El Mirage  Arizona's Family
October 29, 2021

DEQ ignored the law when approving mine expansion, court rules - Billings Gazette

DEQ ignored the law when approving mine expansion, court rules  Billings Gazette
October 29, 2021

Racine Co. Sheriff alleges elections commission broke the law - Wisconsin Examiner

The Racine County Sheriff’s Office alleges the Wisconsin Election Commission broke the law last year by preventing special voting deputies from entering nursing homes to help people vote. (Screenshot | Racine County Sheriff’s Office Facebook) Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling alleged in a press conference Thursday that the Wisconsin Elections Commission broke the law when it directe...
October 29, 2021

Michigan Supreme Court to review law forcing convicts to pay bills - ABC 12 News

LANSING, Mich. (WJRT) - The Michigan Supreme Court will review a law that allows communities to collect millions of dollars from poor criminal defendants. The court says it will hear arguments in a case from Alpena County, where Travis Johnson was ordered to pay $1,200 for a pair of convictions. The question is whether it’s constitutional to ask poor criminals to pay local courts, especially ...
October 29, 2021

Ohio lawmaker challenges legislators to ride-along with law enforcement - The Highland County Press

Comments (0) The Center Square An Ohio lawmaker has challenged legislators around the country to sit with law enforcement personnel and first responders before following through with talk of defunding police departments. Rep. Haraz Ghanbari, R-Perrysburg, launched the nationwide challenge at a news conference Wednesday, calling it “#RideAlongAndLearn,” and he hopes it will bring better dia...
October 29, 2021

Rittenhouse has a strong self-defense claim under Wisconsin law, legal experts say - Fox News

When Kyle Rittenhouse goes on trial Monday for shooting three men during street protests in Wisconsin that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake last summer, he'll argue that he fired in self-defense. Legal experts say under Wisconsin law he has a strong case. What's less clear is whether prosecutors will be able to persuade the jury that Rittenhouse created a deadly situation by showin...
October 29, 2021

Poland summons Belgian ambassador in rule of law row -PAP - Reuters

WARSAW, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Poland has summoned Belgium's ambassador, a foreign ministry spokesman told state-run news agency PAP, after Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo accused Warsaw of "playing with fire" in a worsening dispute with Brussels over the rule of law. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told the Financial Times in an interview published on Sunday that Poland would d...
October 29, 2021

Weaker Conscience Law Heads to Pritzker Following Senate Approval - NBC Chicago

The Senate approved on Thursday night a weakened and criticized plan to preserve ramifications for those who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Democrats who control both houses of the General Assembly struggled through caustic debate all week in pushing a COVID carve-out of the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act. The Senate endorsed the plan 31-24 on the last day of the Legi...
October 29, 2021

What happened to the 'law and order' party? - Palm Beach Post

Palm Beach Post A fundamental question was passed over the day after the congressional hearings regarding Steve Bannon. How can our government hold up the rule of law when a large bloc of the Congress just voted that private citizens can ignore the rule of law? The majority voted to pass this on to the Attorney General’s office but a huge minority of our representatives voted against the fab...
October 29, 2021

In 2020, the legislature passed a transgender students rights law. It largely hasn't been enforced. - WWBT NBC12 News

The Virginia Department of Education offices are in the James Monroe Building in Richmond. In 2020, the General Assembly passed a law requiring local school divisions to adopt model policies extending rights to transgender students. But even as debates over those policies have convulsed school board meetings across the state and been debated by the candidates for governor, many districts rema...