Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty of all 30 counts, including all 17 of the counts carrying the death penalty, as the jury read its verdict Wednesday afternoon. The verdict came after the jury deliberated a little over 12 hours over the course of two days. Tsarnaev was facing those 30 charges for his role […]
For the first time, a U.S. court has held that homosexuality is not a mental disease. New Jersey Superior Court Judge Peter F. Bariso Jr. ruled on Tuesday that therapists who claim that homosexuality is a curable mental disorder are committing consumer fraud in “an ongoing lawsuit filed on behalf of four men who say […]
UPDATE, February 09, 2015 at 10:33 AM EST: The Associated Press reports that “Jefferson County probate judge Alan King issued a license to two women shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Alabama attorney general’s request to extend a hold on a federal judge’s ruling overturning the state’s ban on gay marriage.” This was in spite of […]
Oklahoma district attorneys are outraged at a proposed bill prohibiting them from prosecuting state officials for public crimes. House Bill 2206, proposed by Republican Rep. Kevin Calvey (R-OKC) would cover state elected officials, legislators, district court and appellate judges, and appointees to state boards and state commissions, and would limit those prosecutions to Oklahoma’s Attorney […]
The Republican Attorney Generals of six states filed an amici curiae (friend of the court) brief with the United States Supreme Court in late December in an attempt to gut Obamacare, the nation’s controversial national healthcare program. Those states include Alabama, Georgia, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina and West Virginia, but as Think Progress reports, one […]