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September 23, 2021
This obscure, now contentious law is being used to expel thousands of migrants - National Geographic
More than 14,000 migrants, most of them Haitian, amassed at the border in Del Rio, Texas during the past week in a high-visibility bid for entry into the United States. But officials have moved quickly to expel the vast majority of them using a public health statute that immigration rights groups claim violates U.S. and international law.
By Thursday, the number of migrants at the makeshift c...
September 23, 2021
WATCH: The U.S. government is considering invoking a Cold War-era national security law to force companies in the semiconductor supply chain to provide information on inventory and sales of chips. Justin Sink reports.
The Biden administration is considering invoking a Cold War-era national security law to force companies in the semiconductor supply chain to provide information on inventory a...
September 23, 2021
Law enforcement agencies across Maine paid tribute Thursday to fallen Hancock County sheriff's Deputy Luke Gross.
Gross was hit and killed by a vehicle early Thursday after he had responded to another vehicle that had gone off Route 3 in Trenton.
Members of law enforcement escorted his body from Trenton to the State Medical Examiner's Office in Augusta.
Agencies from across Maine posted messa...
September 23, 2021
Banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory and its tenets in public schools may not be as easy as passing a law. Idaho was the first of nine states to pass an anti-CRT law, and so far this new school year, some parents don’t see any change.
"In any way that they can get it in there, they get it in there, by using words like equity, teaching about white supremacy," said Kristen Young, a pare...
September 23, 2021
Abortion providers and advocates asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to once again take up a Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks, and find that federal courts have a role in reviewing a state law that effectively blocks a constitutional right.
The court on a 5 to 4 vote Sept. 2 said the law could go into effect while legal challenges to it continued. The conservative justices i...
September 23, 2021
An officer closes the entrance to cell block inside the Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Prison.
(The Center Square) – Top law enforcement officials in Georgia are calling for mandatory minimum sentences for offenders to reduce rising crime in the state.
Georgia Sheriffs' Association Executive Director Terry Norris told the Senate Public Safety Committee that a solid justice sy...
September 23, 2021
Murphy Condemns Democrat Attempt to Conceal Red Flag Laws in NDAA Congressman Greg Murphy
September 23, 2021
INTRODUCTION
The chorus demanding that companies disclose information regarding their environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) impact has gotten louder in recent years and with the change in administration. Underpinning those voices is the trend toward “socially responsible investing” – an investing strategy that considers how a company impacts social issues such as climate change or dive...
September 23, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KWWL)- A non-partisan watchdog group alleges Iowa Congresswoman Cindy Axne and six other members of Congress broke the law by not disclosing stock trades.
Axne represents Iowa's 3rd congressional district, which includes Des Moines. The Campaign Legal Center sent a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics on Wednesday asking to investigate Axne's stock trades. The Center...
September 23, 2021
For many years, state and federal courts in California have opposed arbitration and have manufactured frameworks under which they become unenforceable despite the clear directives of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and countless Supreme Court cases. While a string of Supreme Court cases over the past decade gave employers some respite, the Ninth Circuit has now issued a split decision in wh...
