Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a package of 10 criminal justice reform and reinvestment bills earlier this year that will reduce the state鈥檚 prison population by 10 percent and scale down the parole/probation population by 12 percent over the next decade.
Today, HB 1523 went into effect in Mississippi. The law聽allows business owners and government workers to refuse service to LGBT people based on their聽religious聽beliefs.聽
Police in riot gear. Protesters blocking highways. A heated discussion about the acquittal of a white police officer for his role in the shooting of a black man.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued guidance today setting forth the views of the Department of Justice about how federal agencies should protect religious freedom.
A police officer鈥檚 call to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Mississippi last year left an unarmed man 鈥� initially a bystander to a traffic stop 鈥� shot and bleeding in the street, body camera footage obtained by the 蜜桃传媒 shows. The officer called ICE because he needed a Spanish interpreter.
The 蜜桃传媒, and jointly filed a yesterday against the Trump administration, seeking to compel the release of critically important details about how a person can obtain a waiver under the president鈥檚 Muslim ban executive order.
The following statement is regarding a memo issued by the U.S. Attorney General鈥檚 Office to department heads and United States attorneys Wednesday night asserting that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect transgender workers from employment discrimination.
The following statement is about the rule finalized today by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that requires payday and car title lenders to determine a borrower鈥檚 ability to repay before issuing a short-term loan like a payday or title loan.
Below is a statement in response to the reintroduction of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act by a group of bipartisan senators including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, D-Illinois.
