Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed Senate Bill 46 last week, making her state the 37th to permit distribution, sale, and use of medical marijuana. The bill goes into effect immediately, but lawmakers estimate it will be 15 months before the entire process is legally instituted and medical marijuana will be... Read More »
Last week five more Oregon counties passed a measure to begin the process of discussing how to secede and become part of Idaho instead. Malheur, Sherman, Grant, Baker, and Lake counties joined Jefferson and Union which approved a similar motion last year. A total of seven counties make up the... Read More »
A lawsuit filed in Fulton County’s Superior Court is paving the way for a fourth audit of votes cast in the state. This latest lawsuit will allow thousands of absentee ballots that were cast in the last presidential election to be reexamined after repeat allegations of voter fraud. A group... Read More »
Bereaved father Dartavius Barnes is suing the city of Springfield, Illinois, after the police took his two-year-old daughter's cremated ashes out of his car, calling it "drugs," during a warrantless search for speeding. The father said the police took his toddler's remains in a "desecration" when he was stopped for... Read More »
Texas joined South Carolina and Idaho last week in banning nearly all abortions if a fetal heartbeat is detected. The law is set to be enforced in September; it now requires a physician to check for a fetal heartbeat and makes any individual who knowingly assists with an unlawful procedure... Read More »
California drivers who cross double lines to access carpool lanes and those who enter them alone to avoid traffic jams must pay $100 in fines, plus $390 in penalty assessments if they are caught. While these vehicle code violations might slow down traffic, they rarely if ever cause accidents or... Read More »
Philip Greer, a restaurateur who owns a cafe in Texas, has received a preliminary ruling in his favor after he filed suit against the Small Business Association in the Northern District of Texas Fort Worth Division. Greer alleges that he was discriminated against by the SBA through a recent aid... Read More »
States across the country are deciding to no longer offer the additional $300 in federal pandemic unemployment benefits for their residents. The move will also end benefits entirely for those who were not traditionally eligible for unemployment insurance, such as gig-workers, freelancers, individuals who had exhausted their benefits, and those... Read More »
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled against hearing the appeal of death row inmate Ernest Johnson, who is seeking death by firing squad instead of lethal injection. The conservative majority justices did not explain the court's decision. Before the Supreme Court denied Johnston's request for a hearing, a lower court... Read More »
Federal agents seized sixty-eight big cats from the private zoo Tiger King Park in Oklahoma a few days ago as part of a court-approved agreement. The US Department of Justice announced the seizure of the animals, stating it is part of the agreement by the Department of Justice against owners... Read More »
Actor Matthew McConaughey, who has starred in movies like Dallas Buyers Club, Magic Mike, and Interstellar, is planning to run for governor of Texas. McConaughey, 51, was born in Uvalde, Texas. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and children. In March, he said on a Texas podcast that... Read More »
An innocent mistake leads to a missed court date and a hardhearted order to remove a mother and her four-year-old son. In America this year, Independence Day will be written as 07/04/2021. Most of the world, however, would indicate it by writing 04/07/2021. A similar, understandable mix-up was the basis... Read More »
Over 20 years ago, the State of Mississippi lost a Congressional seat, reducing its representation in Congress by one member. Now, the State Supreme Court has cited that lost seat as the reason to rule that a voter-approved medical marijuana initiative is unconstitutional. In a 6-3 decision issued on May... Read More »
The CDC recently released new guidance about mask-wearing saying that people who are fully vaccinated do not need to wear masks in most situations. According to changes listed on the CDC website, as of May 13, 2021, “Risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection is minimal for fully vaccinated people. The risk of... Read More »
With an increase in mass shootings over the year such as the Colorado shootings which left six dead at a birthday party and ten dead at a Colorado grocery store, a rising number of businesses and institutions have turned to insurance policies covering them in the event of a mass... Read More »
