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A federal appeals court will hear arguments Tuesday over the constitutionality of Ohio's lethal injection process as the state tries to start carrying out executions once again. At issue is whether a contested sedative, midazolam, is powerful enough to put inmates into a deep state of unconsciousness before two subsequent drugs paralyze them and stop their hearts.
Durham Mayor Bill Bell announced a plan Monday to send a letter to state leaders urging them to repeal House Bill 2, despite not having majority support on the City Council. The letter that Bell plans to send Tuesday recommends a compromise in which the N.C. General Assembly repeals the controversial law and imposes a moratorium on municipalities preventing them from passing any anti-discrimination ordinances for six months or until the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling on a related case.
The Arkansas Senat e fell a vote short today of approving resolution calling on Congress to propose a constitutional convention to ban same-sex marriage and then followed with a similar vote on an amendment aimed at banning abortion. The vote was 17-7 on the marriage resolution and 17-6 on the abortion measure.
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch should not be confirmed for many reasons, but primarily his record suggests he will be a real threat to the legal protections for women, reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, working men and women, broadly applied religious liberty and limits on money in politics. In short, his record suggests he will be the court's most conservative member - no easy feat considering the presence of Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Check out this item near the bottom I've put in calls to the State Board of Education, the Chicago Urban League and others and haven't heard back yet. The State Board of Education's chairman, James Meeks, hasn't returned two calls but did say "Yes" via text when I asked if the ISBE was settling the lawsuit.
Police were called to investigate at around 9 p.m. at the 27 off ramp for Centennial Road in Caldwell. Officers say 27-year-old Gonzalo Vasquez of Caldwell was headed eastbound in a 2006 Ford F350 when 44-year-old David Trefren of Yakima walked into the road.
Advocates for an endangered species of frog have won a victory in a case that's headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. Last year, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a Louisiana business's attempt to keep the federal government from listing its timberland as essential for the frog's future.
Advocates for an endangered species of frog have won a victory in a case that's headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. Last year, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a Louisiana business's attempt to keep the federal government from listing its timberland as essential for the frog's future.
Along with his remarked-upon shortfalls in diplomacy, nuance, finesse, rationality and often good manners, our 45th president has also been docked for his diversity shortfall. This means he is surrounded by too many persons of pallor and of masculinity, in other words, by white males.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has given a talk - entirely in French - about the artistry of courtroom sketches. Holger Spamann, a Harvard Law School professor who attended the talk, says Breyer also made a case for the professionalism of judges and the importance of their detachment from politics.
A West Virginia local judge elected last year is being suspended for two years for a photoshopped campaign advertisement-published on his Facebook page and elsewhere-that depicted his opponent drinking beer with then-President Barack Obama. Nicholas County Circuit Judge Stephen Callaghan's suspension is without pay, and it includes a $15,000 fine.
After Mr. Trump won the election but before he took office, I suggested that he govern playing "small ball," analogizing to the successful baseball practice of grinding out scores rather than swinging for the fences. Others disagreed .
Supporters and opponents of the women's health care organization Planned Parenthood protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. The reaction brought a smile to my face.
National Review writer Alexandra Desanctis on Wednesday published a piece purporting to explain how recent conservative efforts to defend "religious freedom" aren't really about discriminating against LGBT Americans. Since she used a Salon piece written a day earlier by a former colleague of mine, Nico Lang, to illustrate how liberals are "maliciously mischaracteriz[ing] FADA and other religious-freedom protections," it seems only fair to issue a point-by-point response to the specious claims made in the National Review.
One of the most important issues for Utah citizens and members of the Mormon Church revolve around religious liberty and freedom. The U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately decide these issues.
The Iowa Supreme Court has made it significantly more difficult for police to continue to ask questions or even ask for a driver's license during routine traffic stops if there is no reasonable suspicion a crime has been committed. In a ruling Friday, the majority of a divided 4-3 court overturned a 30-year-old Iowa legal precedent that said officers at least could ask drivers to produce their license during routine stops.
The conversation is about film roles. Well, if you haven't seen it, watch: Now, I don't like the term "retard" - and I really don't like it in political debates.
The legal fight over President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations could shift to the U.S. Supreme Court. President Donald Trump's choice for health secretary, Rep. Tom Price, is the latest of a handful of Cabinet nominees to squeeze through to confirmation by a bitterly-divided, partisan U.S. Senate.
A federal appeals court refused Thursday to reinstate President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from se... . Security officers are seen outside the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals building in San Francisco on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017.
Before Pierron, P.J., Atcheson and Arnold-Burger, JJ.Matthew B. Griffin, appellant pro se. Bryan C. Clark, assistant solicitor general, and Derek Schmidt, attorney general, for appellee.