Mississippi lawmakers hope to return 32 peoples' voting rights The House Judiciary B Committee moved forward 27 bills to return voting rights to people previously convicted of felonies on the state's disenfranchising list, which include crimes such as bad check ... 04/23/2024 - 5:20 am | View Link
Mississippi lawmakers move toward restoring voting rights to 32 felons as broader suffrage bill dies Under the Mississippi Constitution, people lose the right to vote for 10 felonies, including bribery, theft and arson. The state’s previous attorney general, a Democrat, issued a ruling in 2009 that ... 04/22/2024 - 5:46 pm | View Link
Mississippi legislators won't smooth the path this year to restore voting rights after some felonies Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring voting rights to people convicted of some felonies. The Republican-controlled House passed a bill that would have done ... 04/19/2024 - 6:06 am | View Link
Ukraine Aid Bill: Sense Of Urgency Brought To Capitol Hill. As House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to move forward with voting on foreign aid bills, more than 500 people came to Washington to meet with lawmakers ... 04/18/2024 - 1:08 pm | View Link
When Columbia students began occupying Hamilton Hall early Tuesday morning, they said their “escalation” builds on past campus protests that “Columbia once repressed yet celebrates today.”
There is an irony here. Columbia students often hear about the history of dissent on campus. The university explains the student sit-ins of 1968—when protesters occupied buildings (including Hamilton Hall) for a week to protest anti-Black racism, the Vietnam War, and Columbia’s expansion into the surrounding neighborhood of Morningside Heights—in promotional materials with a hopeful nostalgia.
Colorado lawmakers convened Wednesday with one week left in this year’s session of the General Assembly, giving them limited time to pass final bills on land-use reform, gun regulation, property tax relief, tax credits and other priorities. Here are updates on major action and key developments.
This story will be updated throughout the day.
Updated at 11:31 a.m.: A bill to prohibit landlords and property owners from using commercially available algorithms to set rents died Wednesday morning when the House and Senate could not reconcile their differences on the bill.
After House Bill 1057 passed the House, the Senate added an amendment that allowed landlords to use algorithms as long as the data was publicly available.
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, SCOTT BAUER and MICHELLE L. PRICE (Associated Press)
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Donald Trump on Wednesday will use a one-day break from his hush money trial to rally voters in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan, a day after he was held in contempt of court and threatened with jail time for violating a gag order.
His remarks will be closely watched after he received a $9,000 fine for making public statements about people connected to the case.