Timing is everything in politics, so it was splendidly appropriate that the launch week of Humza Yousaf's draconian hate crime law should culminate in yesterday's Old Firm derby.
More than 1,000 hate crime complaints have been made to police every day on average since Scotland's controversial new law was introduced on April Fool's Day.
It’s easy to laugh at the latest example of SNP incompetence, but new hate crime laws will have serious consequences – not last for the police’s ability to solve actual crimes, says Paul Ormerod The Scottish hate crime law has been a prominent feature in the media ever since it came into force just over []
Councilmember Susan Zhuang and a group of local lawmakers held a press conference in Brooklyn Thursday afternoon pushing for new laws to be passed.
Scottish police said on Wednesday they had received more than 7,000 online reports of offenses in the first week since the introduction of a new hate crime law that opponents say could curb free speech and waste police time. The law, brought in by a devolved government controlled by the
Scotland's new anti-free speech crime law is a wicked product of an increasingly censored society that must be woken up, writes James Price.
Far-right white nationalists are said to have bombarded Police Scotland with anonymous online gripes in a coordinated attempt to make light of laws which came into force last week.
Gov. Kathy Hochul The state budget was already a week late on Sunday as Assembly members returned to Albany to pass a temporary extension. [ more › ]
By Elaine S. Povich for Minnesota Reformer When a Republican colleague threatened to read aloud from a two-foot stack of books—including a biblical guide to leadership and a tome by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist—to protest inaction on his bills last week, Missouri state Sen. Rick Brattin quickly took up the cause. Seizing on a chance to hijack the planned schedule, Brattin spoke for about 45 minutes, accusing the leaders of his own Republican Party of ignoring some bills and making things...
First minister calls for end to vexatious reports after far-right agitators attempt to “overwhelm” official systemsNeo-Nazi and far-right agitators are exploiting Scotland’s new hate crime law to make vexatious complaints en masse in an attempt to “overwhelm” police systems.A prominent figure in England’s white nationalist movement is among those urging followers to spam Police Scotland with anonymous online reports, the Observer has found. Continue reading
The caucuses are groups of Republican legislators who aim to push their party further to the right on issues such as immigration, voting access and transgender restrictions.
By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Lawmakers in Georgia’s legislature have scuffled as the parliament started debating a divisive new law dubbed the foreign agent bill. Hours later, hundreds of people protested against the legislation outside the parliament in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The draft — proposed by the ruling party