Republican former President Donald Trump said on Monday that he thinks abortion bans should be left to the individual states.Trump made the announcement on his social media platform, Truth Social, with seven months to go until the 2024 presidential election."The states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land," Trump said. "In this case, the law of the state."He said that many states will have varying limitations without a...
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The state Senate on Tuesday passed dozens of bills on mandatory third reading, a key step before becoming law, but senators rejected one contested measure that aimed to combat an increase in animal cruelty cases in Hawaii.
A Charleston businesswoman whose fight to legalize mobile cosmetology services in South Carolina made headlines earlier this year is celebrating a major, though still incomplete, victory in the state Senate. “I’m really happy,” Ring My Belle owner Megan O’Brien told Statehouse Report after the Senate unanimously passed its mobile cosmetology bill on April 4, clearing the measure for consideration […]
Democrats in the Colorado House of Representatives passed a bill on Sunday
President Marcos expressed hope that Congress would pass bills allowing US nuclear firm Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. (USNC) to undertake its project in the Philippines as the government continues to explore ways to ensure access to clean and affordable energy sources.
Proposal sails through, with one vocal opponent saying gay first cousins do not risk having a child with birth defectsThe Republican-led Tennessee legislature has overwhelmingly voted to send the Republican governor, Bill Lee, a proposal that would ban marriage between first cousins.The statehouse cast a 75-2 vote on Thursday on the bill after the senate previously approved it without any opposition. Continue reading
(The Center Square) - The Arizona Supreme Court ruled in a 4-2 decision on Monday that the 1864 ban on abortion altogether will take effect in two weeks, instead of keeping a 2022 law that bans abortion after 15 weeks. “Absent the federal constitutional abortion right, and because [the law] does not independently authorize abortion, there is no provision in federal or state law prohibiting [the law’s] operation. Accordingly, [the 1864 law] is now enforceable,” the court’s...
(The Center Square) - The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would make illegal immigration a state crime after a heated debate where one Democrat called the bill "extremist legislation." House Bill 4156 makes “impermissible occupation” a criminal act, defined as a person willfully and without permission entering and remaining in Oklahoma without first obtaining legal authorization to enter the United States, according to the bill. It...
When the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to get an abortion in June 2022, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested that the court “should reconsider” other rights it currently recognizes – like the rights for same-sex couples to have sex and marry. If the Supreme Court overturns legal precedents on these and other issues, old state laws that haven’t been enforced, possibly for centuries, can suddenly spring back to life. This is what happened after the Arizona Supreme Court...
Governor Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) said Friday on ABC's "The View" that women in her state will die because of the reinstated abortion ban from 1864. | Clips
A bill that would ban cell phones in schools passed the Louisiana Senate and is headed to the House.