Law

  • Is Texas seeking to legalize racism with new SB4 Law?

    Exactly 23 years ago, Arizona sought to implement Bill SB 1070, the most radical Bill up to that point in the history of the United States. Shortly before coming into effect, a judge stopped its most controversial measures, and shortly after, the Supreme Court rejected its most extreme clauses...
  • Trump and the Assault on Capitol Hill: Above the Law?

    As if nothing had happened in the capital of the United States, as if he were not in the dock of the public hearings of Congress for his actions and inactions during the attempted coup of January 6, former President Donald Trump returned to Washington so coolly. After leaving...
  • IL Initiative Helps Expunge Cannabis Convictions

    CHICAGO — A little more than a year after Illinois became the eleventh state to legalize recreational cannabis, legal-aid groups are working to help residents get past cannabis convictions expunged through a state-funded program called the New Leaf Initiative. Gray Mateo-Harris, a board member of the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation,...
  • Una iniciativa de Illinois ayudaría a eliminar las condenas por cannabis

    CHICAGO – A poco más de un año de que Illinois se convirtiera en el undécimo estado en legalizar el uso recreativo del cannabis, grupos de asesoría legal están trabajando para ayudar a los residentes a exonerar las condenas por cannabis mediante un programa financiado por el estado llamado...
  • NADIE POR ENCIMA DE LA LEY

    José López Zamorano La Red Hispana   Al cabo de dos años de investigaciones, más de 500 citatorios, el fiscal especial Robert Mueller emitió sus conclusiones: Ni el presidente Donald Trump ni sus allegados conspiraron o se coludieron con Rusia para interferir indebidamente en las elecciones presidenciales del 2016....
  • NO PRESIDENT MAY BE ABOVE THE LAWS OF THIS LAND

    Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR CAN A SITTING PRESIDENT BE INDICTED? This is an issue which needs examination these days because of the questionable policy of the Department of Justice with respect to indicting any sitting President. The main consideration is that the Office of the President of the United...
  • Restructure Custodial Care & Law Enforcement

    Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR  The article authored by Scott Herhold (Mercury News, Local News Section, page B1, January 8, 2017) entitled “Sheriff Should Be Replaced in 2018” presents the case for finding a suitable candidate for the Office of the Sheriff. The reality is that the election of a...
  • Vermont’s GMO Law Changes Labels in California, Nationally

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The food at your Fourth of July cookout may have came with a new label: saying it contains a genetically modified organism, or GMO. That’s because a first-of-its-kind law in Vermont took effect July 1st, requiring all GMO foods to say...
  • Law to Fight Doctor-Shopping in CA Takes Effect

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – All doctors in California must be registered for access to the state’s prescription database. It’s part of an effort to stop drug-addicted patients from “doctor shopping” to get pain pills. The law went into effect on Friday July 1st. The Controlled...
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