A Florida House judiciary committee passed a bill today that would outlaw the use of “foreign law” in family court cases. The measure, and past incarnations of it, have been touted by right-wing activists as an attempt to “stop the spread of Sharia in Florida.”
At a Colorado Senate committee hearing on a same-sex civil unions bill last Wednesday, a series of witnesses battered Republican lawmakers opposed to the bill, suggesting they were confused in their ideology, non-strategic in their thinking, and enslaved to an outdated anti-gay “hateful bigoted mantra.” The harsh criticism came More…
Denver state Sen. Pat Steadman’s re-introduced same-sex civil unions bill is being heard this afternoon in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Although the bill will be passed easily by the committee’s Democratic majority, the hearing will be the staging ground for this year’s arguments for and against it, drawing the More…
The bill passed in a House appropriations committee today. More…
A bill that would set humane rules for the restraint of incarcerated pregnant women in correctional facilities across the state passed in a justice appropriations committee today, after weeks of not moving in the Florida House.
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