Life can be so, so different in Florida. Take, for example, the state’s most recent Constitution Revision Committee, which concluded its work on April 16, 2018. The Florida Constitution requires such a commission to be convened every 20 years. Unlike ...
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According to Wikipedia, Kentucky is known for horse racing, bourbon distilleries, moonshine, college basketball and KFC. To the list should be added laws that limit access to abortion. The state tried to force doctors to conduct an ultrasound before an ...
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More snow and cold. Makes you yearn for the warmth and sunshine of Florida. However, before you relocate, consider the legal environment of Florida. For example, look at felon disenfranchisement. Florida is one of four states that effectively bars every ...
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President Trump is bedeviled by leaks. He tweets they are “illegal” and wants the persons making them prosecuted. All of his bluster has not stemmed the flow of information from anonymous sources. In this respect his administration is no different ...
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Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford, a federal district court judge for our area, has received favorable publicity in the past four months. In two decisions she criticized ICE for the way it treated asylum-seekers detained at the Buffalo Detention Facility in ...
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People are talking seriously about bail reform: the reduction or the elimination of bail for certain persons awaiting trial. The reasons are many. There are the cost savings — $40 a day to house a pretrial detainee in the Monroe ...
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You see the green and white vehicles of the Border Patrol cruising the roads of Monroe County and the adjacent counties. What you may not know is that the Border Patrol believes it has the authority to stop any vehicle ...
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Consider this question. Your neighbor is dirt poor. He is on probation. As part of his sentence he must pay a fine in installments. He makes the first installment and then loses his job. He cannot pay the next installments ...
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The founding of Israel was and remains contentious. The Arab states responded, in part, by instituting an economic boycott of all things Israeli. The boycott extended to non-Israeli firms that did business with the government of Israel or Israeli firms. ...
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The phrase “enemy combatant” conjures up an image of a person, usually a foreign national, infiltrating the country during a time of war, to spy or wreak havoc, or, more recently, fighting for a stateless group like al-Qaida or the ...
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The next time you zoom past the Batavia exit on the Thruway, on your way to Buffalo, look left. There is the Palm Island Indoor Water Park. The average stay is 1.5 hours, full of fun and frolic. Then look ...
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A decision based on a “radical” “new right for unlawful immigrant minors” “to obtain immediate abortion on demand” or one that honored the exercise of “an unquestioned constitutional right to choose a pre-viability abortion.” Such were the diametrically opposed viewpoints ...
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