AL Political Reporter: “The Alabama Sheriffs Association, joined by the Association of County Commissions of Alabama and the Alabama Association of School Resource Officers, held a press conference outside the Alabama Statehouse Tuesday to voice their opposition to a slate of permitless carry — also known as “constitutional carry” — bills currently moving through the…
Month: February 2022
“NC Supreme Court hears redistricting case arguments”
NC Policy Watch: “State Supreme Court justices were asked in oral arguments Wednesday to declare that redistricting plans the Republicans devised are so skewed that they violate voters’ constitutional rights, while lawyers for GOP lawmakers argued that redistricting should be left to the legislature. Common Cause, the League of Conservation Voters, and a group of…
“Federal Judge Rejects Hate Crime Plea Deals in Ahmaud Arbery Killing”
NY Times: “A federal judge on Monday rejected plea agreements with the Justice Department for two of the three white men facing hate crime charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery after his family expressed fierce opposition to the deal.It was a surprising and extraordinary twist in a case in which a 25-year-old Black man…
“More than 12 HBCU campuses targeted in new round of bomb threats”
NBC News: “More than a dozen historically Black colleges and universities received bomb threats on Tuesday, the first day of Black History Month. Howard University was among the first to issue a shelter-in-place order early Tuesday — just a day after the school and several other historically Black colleges and universities received similar threats. “A bomb…