Sentences For Georgia Drug Offenders Have Tripled Since 1990
Image via Wikipedia The state of Georgia has established a Special Council on Criminal Justice Reform, which is working with lawmakers to reform the state’s criminal justice system with the intent of reducing the prison population (the state currently has the nation’s fifth-largest prison system). In an article about these reform efforts, the More...
Colorado Activists Turn In Nearly Twice As Many Signatures As Needed For Marijuana Legalization Amendment
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, Colorado activists campaigning to place a constitutional amendment on the 2012 ballot that would legalize “limited possession of marijuana for recreational use” turned in 160,000 More...
Sorry, Boehner, The Senate Cannot Take Away Obama’s Recess Appointment Power By Pretending To Work
As ThinkProgress predicted yesterday, congressional Republicans did not wait long to whine that President Obama’s wholly legal decision to recess appoint Richard Cordray is unconstitutional. According More...
California Dream Act Goes Into Effect
Image by ironypoisoning via Flickr California’s Dream Act, which lets undocumented students receive state financial aid, officially went into effect Jan. 1, which the California Department of Finance estimates More...
Rick Perry Draws A Blank On Key Supreme Court Case Overturning Texas’ Anti-Gay Laws He Defended
Image via Wikipedia During his presidential campaign, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has had difficulty recalling how many justices sit on the Supreme Court and remembering their names, so perhaps it’s not surprising More...
Federal Judge Orders Sheriff Arpaio To Stop Arresting People Simply Because He Thinks They Are Undocumented
Image via Wikipedia Less than two weeks after the Department of Justice found widespread lawlessness and abuse of Latinos by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his deputies, an Arizona federal judge ordered More...
Half of North Carolina Concealed Carry Permit Holders With Felony Convictions Keep Their Permit
North Carolina is one of the few states in the country with public records of who has a permit to carry a concealed firearm, so it provides a rare window into how such permits are handled once their holder’s More...
Alabama Catholic Bishops Urge GOP Gov. Bentley To Repeal Or Revise State’s ‘Unjust And Unfair’ Immigration Law
Image via Wikipedia Alabama Catholic bishops Thomas Rodi and Robert Baker joined several Christian leaders in urging Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) to repeal or greatly revise the state’s radical anti-immigration More...
Immigrants Founded Half Of The Top U.S. Start-Up Ventures
Alex Mehr and Shayan Zadeh, Iranian immigrants, founded the online dating site Zoosk. Studies continue to show the important economic impact immigrants have on the national economy as well as states, be it More...
93-Year-Old Tennessee Woman Who Cleaned State Capitol For 30 Years Denied Voter ID
Tennessee's Capitol building in Nashville. A 93-year-old Tennessee woman who cleaned the state Capitol for 30 years, including the governor’s office, says she won’t be able to vote for the More...