JURIST

JUNE 27, 2023

Three Virginia citizens disqualified from voting due to felony convictions joined a nonprofit organization to file a lawsuit Monday in federal court against Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and several state elections officials. The action challenges the felony disenfranchisement provision of the Virginia Constitution.

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The Crime Report

JULY 27, 2021

Since 2006, when meth labs were appearing across rural communities, Alabama has made it a felony to expose a child to a chemically toxic environment by enforcing heavier penalties on people who make drugs around children, exposing them to the vapors that are emitted in the creation of crack and meth.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

” Local newspaper publisher Sherry Digmon and reporter Don Fletcher were arrested in Atmore, Alabama on October 27 and accused of revealing information about a grand jury investigation related to the Escambia County School Board. ” Abuse of grand jury information is a felony under Alabama law.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

” The states of Texas and Louisiana originally filed their lawsuit against the federal government in 2021, saying: The Biden Administration is refusing to take custody of criminal aliens despite federal statutes requiring it to do so. Such aliens belong in federal custody, as Congress required.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

The statute includes a list of information the government must include – most notably, the time and place of the removal hearing. A noncitizen who does not attend a removal proceeding can be ordered removed as long as written notice has been provided to him under the statute. Smith was charged with five felony counts.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

The statute was amended in 1950 to remove burglary from the list, and in 1968 it was amended to add rape and murder, in part because a federal civil rights commission noted the omission of such serious felonies from the list. Alabama , she contends that it was error not to receive the newly proffered mitigating evidence.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

So-called “trigger” laws have already gone into effect in states where anti-abortion statutes are already on the books have been activated by the decision. Alabama’s Attorney General was granted an emergency motion to dissolve an injunction against the law on Friday afternoon. Law : Alabama HB314 2019. Law : Arkansas SB149 2019.

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