Month: January 2025

With celebrations marking the start of a new Legislature with a new governor capturing most of the attention around the Capitol last week, advocates of gun rights and gun safety measures were probably more focused on something else. Across the flag circle from the domed Legislative Building, the Washington Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on

Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: Announcing his intentions months in advance, at the start of the legislative session, the longest serving speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, Carl “Bev” Bledsoe, R-Hugo, said that he would not seek re-election in November. Bledsoe had held the speaker position for 10 years but told The Colorado Statesman

A three-judge panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals this week reversed an order by a district judge in Pittsburgh affirming Pennsylvania laws that prohibit adults under the age of 21 from receiving firearms carry permits. Two of the appeals court judges in a majority opinion — Kent A. Jordan and D. Brooks Smith

Despite those changes and the potential Schedule III classification, some researchers say the study of cannabis may still face limits. “What we haven’t seen is any ability for researchers — cannabis researchers, clinical researchers — to … study products that our patients and our recreational consumers or adult consumers are actually using,” neuroscientist Staci Gruber

On our latest Trade To Black podcast, Shane Pennington, a partner at Porter Wright Morris and Arthur LLC, joins us explain ALJ Hearing Judge John Mulrooney’s ruling from earlier this week, which included cancelling next week’s DEA hearing for the rescheduling of cannabis. We’ll also be examining how this impacts cannabis legislation under a Trump

Just months after a Florida marijuana legalization initiative failed at the ballot, the campaign behind the proposal has filed a revised version in hopes of getting a second shot in 2026. Smart & Safe Florida’s 2024 measure did receive a majority of the vote in November, but it fell short of a steep 60 percent

More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general said Thursday they plan to defend two gun regulations now being challenged in court, including one banning devices that enable semiautomatic guns to fire more quickly. New Jersey Democratic Attorney General Matt Platkin said his state and others with Democratic attorneys general, plan to intervene in cases

The NRA recently warned Mainers that progressive politicians were zeroing in on their hunting rights. This week, Maine hunters got their first look at the anti-hunting policies coming their way in 2025 in the form of cost increases to make up for budget shortfalls.  In her latest budget proposal, Governor Janet Mills announced major increases in

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown joined a dozen Democratic attorneys general Thursday in defending two federal gun regulations now being challenged in court, including one banning devices that enable semiautomatic guns to fire more quickly. New Jersey Democratic Attorney General Matt Platkin said his state and others with Democratic attorneys general,

In just the second week of the session, the Washington State legislature continues their assault on your right to keep and bear arms. This coming Tuesday, January 21st, 5 more-gun bills are scheduled for a hearing! The Senate and House committee hearings are suspiciously scheduled on the same day. Both the House and Senate Committees have

President Joe Biden has granted clemency to nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders as his last hours in the White House wind down. “Today, I am commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses who are serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy,

The ACLU was long famous for defending free speech, regardless of the speaker. In recent years, that approach created a rift inside the organization. Photo: Charles E. Knoblock/AP Photo In May 2022, roughly a year before he was removed from the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Michael Barfield saw

View image in fullscreen ‘We are ready’: the ACLU is prepared to fight Trump’s attacks on civil liberties Organization faces arguably its biggest test with Trump’s return to power with deportation, free speech and immigration on the agenda The American Civil Liberties Union, a leading defender of rights and freedoms enshrined in the US constitution,

Lawmakers in Washington revised and narrowed the scope of a bill that would have expanded state gun-free zones and prohibited guns and weapons in nearly all locations where children are present. Members of the Senate Law and Justice Committee recommended the passage of SB 5098 during a meeting Thursday after an exemption for Concealed Pistol