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September 28, 2021

Foes of tax cuts, voting law changes ready petition filings - Albuquerque Journal

PHOENIX — Massive income tax cuts passed by the Arizona Legislature earlier this year and a series of election law changes could be put on hold until voters weigh in next year if opponents turn in enough signatures by a midnight Tuesday deadline. A coalition of education advocates believe they have gathered enough signatures to put at least one and possibly three new tax cut laws on hold. The...
September 28, 2021

Deputies searching for man who led law enforcement on chase - WSAZ-TV

Tyler Leach, 22, of Charleston has an active circuit court capias in Kanawha County. CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - A man who led law enforcement on a chase after an arrest attempt, is now wanted by the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office. Tyler Leach, 22, of Charleston has an active circuit court capias in Kanawha County, officials confirm. Deputies say when they went to arrest him on September 23 h...
September 28, 2021

Wisconsin leads nation in referring students to law enforcement - Wisconsin Examiner

Brief “middle school lunch room — sneak peek in the lunchroom with the sixth graders” Photo by woodleywonderworks CC BY 2.0 In Wisconsin, public school staff called the police on students at twice the national rate from 2017 to 2018. According to a report by the Center for Public Integrity, nine students out of every 1,000 were referred to police, compared to the national rate of 4.5. The r...
September 28, 2021

Meet the two ‘yahoos’ suing over Texas’ new abortion law - WFAA.com

"Is this the best you can do to draft a law, just to let anybody come in here? It doesn't matter that I live in Cedarville Ark.," said one plaintiff on Y'all-itics. DALLAS — For the first time, the two former attorneys – one in Arkansas, the other from Chicago – discuss their different motivations for being the first to sue over Texas’ new abortion law. “When I looked at this law, I thought,...
September 28, 2021

131 Federal Judges Broke the Law by Hearing Cases Where They Had a Financial Interest - The Wall Street Journal

More than 130 federal judges have violated U.S. law and judicial ethics by overseeing court cases involving companies in which they or their family owned stock. A Wall Street Journal investigation found that judges have improperly failed to disqualify themselves from 685 court cases around the nation since 2010. The jurists were appointed by nearly every president from Lyndon Johnson to Donal...
September 28, 2021

Florida sues Biden administration over catch-and-release policy, alleging violation of federal law - Fox News

Biden's catch-and-release is a 'magnet' for illegal immigration: Retired Border Patrol agent EXCLUSIVE: The state of Florida is suing the Biden administration over its "illegal" catch-and-release policies at the Southern Border, saying they cause harm to the state's "quasi-sovereign interests," while claiming officials are either in violation of federal immigration law, or simply abusing thei...
September 28, 2021

A Post-Watergate Law Some Judges Overlook - The Wall Street Journal

Before then, federal law relied on judges’ discretion to decide whether a financial conflict of interest was substantial enough to warrant recusal. The 1974 law requires judges to inform themselves about their own financial interests and to make a reasonable effort to do the same regarding spouses and minor children. Placing stock in trusts or letting financial advisers manage or control the ...
September 28, 2021

Georgia's Six-Week Abortion Law Ruling Delayed by 11th Circuit - Bloomberg Law

An exam table stands in an operating room at the Whole Woman's Health abortion clinic in San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. Eleventh Circuit judges hinted at stay during oral arguments Supreme Court asked to overrule Roe v. Wade A federal appeals court’s decision on the constitutionality of a Georgia law banning abortions after six weeks’ gestation has been delayed pending the ...
September 28, 2021

Foes of Arizona tax cuts, voting law changes ready petition filings - FOX 10 News Phoenix

PHOENIX - Massive income tax cuts passed by the Arizona Legislature earlier this year and a series of election law changes could be put on hold until voters weigh in next year if opponents turn in enough signatures by a midnight Tuesday deadline. A coalition of education advocates believes they have gathered enough signatures to put at least one and possibly three new tax cut laws on hold. Th...
September 28, 2021

Congress must change the law to stem the rise of illegal border crossings - Immigration Blog

There has always been a stream of unaccompanied children (UC) illegally crossing the border. Twenty years ago it was less than one tenth the size it is now. In the first 10 months of Fiscal Year 2021 75,165 have been resettled around the U.S., already an all-time high for annual UC admissions. Without changes these numbers will go up drastically from this highwater mark. Tennessee is among th...