Eight Republican New Hampshire legislators have introduced HB 185, to restore the straight-ticket device. New Hampshire eliminated it in 2007, after Democrats won control of the legislature in 2006. The general argument in favor of straight-ticket devices is that many voters are too uninterested to finish filling out their ballot, so they leave the offices(More)… …read more
On January 13, 2015, two individuals who had previously run for President filed a petition for cert with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the Court to rule that California election officials have a constitutional duty to investigate the constitutional qualifications of presidential candidates before listing them on the ballot. The two individuals who filed the(More)… …read more
The prosecution of Barrett Brown, which seemed to go under the radar of the mainstream media, is one of the most important cases of my lifetime, and has taught us …
Iowa Representative Peter Cownie (R-West Des Moines) has introduced HF 4, which would abolish the straight-ticket device. …read more
Joseph Sledge became a free man on Friday after a three-judge panel declared him innocent of a 1976 murder for which he had been convicted.
Andrea Germanos | CommonDreams.org
Seventy-year-old Sledge, who always maintained his innocence, had already spent 37 years behind bars.
As WRAL reported: “Last month, the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission recommended the case of Joseph Sledge for judicial review after newly discovered evidence cast doubt on whether he had anything to do with the killings of Josephine Davis, 74, and Ailene Davis, 53, in their Elizabethtown home.”
Sledge escaped from prison in 1976 where he was serving a four-year …read more
Kinloch, Missouri – Theda Wilson, the former mayor of a Missouri town says that she was assaulted by police after she called 911 to report a burglary in her apartment complex.
“In the back of my apartment I called 9-1-1 thinking they were going to help,” Wilson said.
Unfortunately, “help” is rarely what actually arrives when the police are called, as Wilson soon found out.
As the police arrived, Wilson approached them and let them know that a suspicious person was seen going in and out of a nearby building. That is when police told her that she was under arrest, and instead …read more
New Hampshire Representative Max Abramson (R-Seabrook) has introduced a bill to lower the number of signatures for independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties. Current law requires 3,000 signatures for statewide office. The bill would convert petitions for all office to one-tenth of 1% of the population. For statewide candidates, the requirement during this(More)… …read more
Yonkers, NY– A Yonkers police officer is on medical leave after shooting and wounding an off duty officer from another precinct on Monday evening.
Pelham Manor Officer Ken Campion finished his day shift on Monday and was found by Yonkers officers as he was sitting on a baseball field with a handgun in his lap, five and a half hours later.
“He did not adhere to several commands…(and) made a movement that led them to believe they were in great danger,” Police Commissioner Charles Gardner said at a press conference on Friday.
Yonkers Police Commissioner Charles Gardner said Campion “seemed suicidal” and “moved …read more
Lakewood, Ohio – A Cleveland area detective will be attending “sensitivity training” after he was reprimanded for blaring the Aerosmith song “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” while a transgender woman was being interrogated.
The suspect was arrested for allegedly shoplifting on December 22nd, and although she didn’t experience any harassment during her booking and holding, when it came time for her questioning, suspect Robin Spitfire Adelmann was needlessly humiliated by a detective during her interrogation process.
As she was being questioned, Detective Thomas McLaughlin began to play songs which were immaturely targeted at her, such as the Aerosmith song, as well as …read more
North Dakota HB 1260 will be heard in the House Government & Veterans Affairs Committee on January 29, at 8 a.m., Thursday. This is the bill that deletes the minimum vote turnout needed in a partisan primary before that party can nominate candidates. In North Dakota, all qualified parties nominate by primary. North Dakota has(More)… …read more
