I had an occasion recently to discuss last year’s Colorado Supreme Court Decision ruling that the University of Colorado could not ban firearms from its campuses. The court came to this conclusion due to the specific language of a state statute barring any entity from passing policy or laws restricting a citizen’s right to carry […]
Martha Plimpton, co-founder of the women’s rights organization A Is For, and Irin Carmon, staff writer for Salon.com, appeared on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell to talk about the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act. “The Arkansas state legislature wants the state to have the most restrictive abortion ban in the country…” O’Donnell reports. The […]
By William Boardman [email protected] Grounded yet again by the Pentagon as unsafe to fly, the Air Force’s most expensive warplane, the experimental F-35 nuclear-capable stealth bomber is under increasing attack around the country, but especially in Vermont where citizens trying to protect local health and welfare are taking actions against the Air Force in federal […]
One vaginal probe isn’t humiliating enough for women who choose to terminate their pregnancy in Indiana. Now Indiana Republican legislators want TWO! The egregious Senate Bill 371 passed out of the Senate Committee with an approval of 7 to 5 sending it to a full vote in the State Senate. Sen. Travis Holdman (R) introduced […]
Huffington Post reports the State Senate in North Dakota passed a Personhood Constitutional Amendment initiative on Thursday that amends the state’s constitution and gives legal rights to human embryos. Republican State Senator Margaret Sitte told Huffington Post, “We are intending that it be a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, since Scalia said that the […]