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Red States Are Reversing Criminal Justice Reform
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoThe Kansas Legislature recently passed a bill reforming the state's civil asset forfeiture laws with unanimous support in both the House and Senate....
On this day in history, June 5, 1968, presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy is fatally shot in Los...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 1 day agoPresidential hopeful and former attorney general Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on this day in...
Felons often can’t vote in Florida. But Trump likely can, thanks to a quirk of the law.
Washington Post· 6 days agoThousands of Florida residents lose their right to vote every year when they are convicted of a...
Texas Republicans, Democrats and immigrant advocacy groups blast Biden’s asylum executive order |...
Houston Public Media· 24 hours agoThe Texas Civil Rights Project and others are condemning President Biden's Tuesday executive action...
How a Texas law may be helping plummet cases of people tampering with ankle monitors
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoOf the 75,000 people on parole supervision in Texas, there are about 2,800 on traditional electronic...
Michigan Senate passes updates to ‘medically frail’ parole bill
Michigan Advance via Yahoo News· 2 days agoPeople in prison who may legally qualify as “medically frail” are one step closer to being released...
Travis County DA Battles Gov. Abbott's Pardon of Convicted Murderer in High-Stakes Legal Showdown
Hoodline· 19 hours agoAppeals to overturn what he views as a circumvention of the judicial process. Governor Abbott had...
Prosecutor asks Texas court to reverse governor's pardon of man who fatally shot demonstrator
ABC13 Houston· 19 hours agoThe Texas governor's pardon of a former Army sergeant who fatally shot a Black Lives Matter...
Can State Supreme Courts Preserve—or Expand—Rights?
The New Yorker· 3 days agoOn many issues, he writes, “the state courts in recent years have gone from being civil-rights followers to leaders.” In 1997, glad, along with two Vermont lawyers, filed ...
New York AG calls for investigation into pardoned Texas killer
Houston Chronicle· 6 days agoThe letter penned by New York Attorney General Letitia James and signed by 13 other Democratic...