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Washington DC – This week, President Obama signed a bill that will create a national alert system for the capture of anyone who hurts or makes a threat against a police officer. The new bill further solidifies the fact that the lives of police officers are seen as more valuable than that of the average citizen.
The new bill would create a system that would be comparable to the Amber Alerts used to find abducted children, but would likely be taken far more seriously.
USA Today Reports:
The law requires the Justice Department to create a notification system relating to assaults on police …read more

On May 17, the Minnesota legislature passed an omnibus election law bill, SF 455. Among other things, it says the party petition can only be circulated for one year. The old law lets a group take as long as it wishes to complete the petition. The bill provides that the group would choose its own one-year period. …read more

Congress is being asked to vote without reading #TPP #fasttrack Please re-tweet.

President Obama is finalizing the 12-nation, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. He wants a “fast track” bill to prevent Congress from amending the TPP before voting on it.

There are two problems…
YOU aren’t allowed to even know what’s in the TPP!
Congress is being actively discouraged from reading it
That’s why I told Congress to pass the “Read the Bills Act” through DownsizeDC.org.

Please do the same. You may borrow from or copy this letter…
The TPP proves why we need Downsize DC’s Read the Bills Act. …read more

Los Angeles, California – This week, it was reported that the U.S. Supreme Court will allow a lawsuit against the LAPD for covering up evidence that would have prevented a man from sitting in jail for 27 months prior to his trial. Lawyers for the LAPD recently filed an appeal, arguing that since the man had not stood trial yet, that it was OK for them to conceal the evidence during his detainment. However, the Supreme court has now struck down the appeal, allowing the lawsuit to continue.
The lawsuit was initially filed by Michael Walker, a man who is now …read more

RT.com
Ricky Jackson, who spent 39 years in jail for a murder he did not commit, is suing the police officers who allegedly helped frame him. Jackson was convicted on the testimony of a 12-year-old boy who didn’t see the crime and later retracted his statement.
The lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday against the city of Cleveland, alleges that eight officers, including detectives and their superiors, were involved in framing Jackson and brothers Wiley and Ronnie Bridgeman for the killing of salesman Harold Franks, which occurred in the Cleveland area in 1975. Three of the officers involved in the case have …read more

Ralph Nader has this op-ed in The Morning Call, daily newspaper published in Allentown, Pennsylvania. …read more

You can see the bills Congress has passed so far this year. We will continue to update throughout the year…

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A video uploaded to Facebook Sunday captured a Georgia sheriff’s deputy’s unlawful disregard for the First Amendment.
A trucker driving through Georgia was stopped by WCSO deputy J. Rozier. In an effort to hold his detaining officer accountable, Carl Eastman, decided to film his traffic stop.
Eastman is cordial as he approaches the back of his tractor-trailer to speak with deputy Rozier. After the two greet each other, Rozier realizes that he is being held accountable by Eastman’s camera; he did not like this.
As Rozier asks for Eastman’s bill of lading and ID, he then asks him if he’d mind putting down …read more

Albuquerque, NM — Dale Lusian was no saint, he was allegedly caught breaking into vehicles and stealing parts in an auto junkyard. When the police K-9 found him hiding in a car, Lusian shot the dog three times.
Whether or not Lusian is a good person is irrelevant in this incident as it’s what police did to his dead body that is making waves in the Albuquerque Police Department and the New Mexico State Police.
After the death of Lusian, police were mum on the details of what happened on March 21, 2014. Local News team, KRQE sued the department for the …read more

On March 2, 2015, U.S. District Court Judge Stewart Dalzell, a Bush Sr. appointee, struck down three Pennsylvania ballot access barriers, but only as applied to the Green Party and the Libertarian Party. The laws are: (1) the ban on out-of-state circulators; (2) the requirement that each petition sheet be notarized; (3) the prohibition on a voter signing for more than one minor party in any given election year.
(As to the notarization part of the decision, it interprets Pennsylvania election law to not require notarization of petitions, but it also says that if the law did …read more