READ: 10th Circuit Appeals Court ruling on presidential electorsA federal appeals court has found it was unconstitutional for Colorado to throw out the vote of a faithless elector during the 2016 presidential election. ….. Read More.CNN – Politics | Politics & GovernmentWed, August 21, 20199 hours ago
Michigan court reverses convictions for Detroit activist who waved gunThe Michigan Court of Appeals on Tuesday reversed multiple felony convictions for a Detroit activist and mother who gave birth incarcerated last year. ….. Read More.DETROIT FREE PRESS – General News | U.S. National NewsWed, August 21, 201915 hours ago
2 whistleblowers appear in Australian court over leaksCANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Two whistleblowers have appeared in a Canberra court charged separately with leaking classified government information that alleges Australia bugged East Timor’s Cabinet and potential war crimes committed by Australian troops in Afghanistan. Free speech demonstrators rallied outside the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court during preliminary hearings on Thursday for lawyer Bernard […] ….. Read More.SEATTLE TIMES – Nation-World | U.S. & World NewsWed, August 21, 20192 hours ago
March For Our Lives Calls for Confiscating Guns, Investigating the NRA, and ‘Reformi…March For Our Lives wants sweeping gun control, and a lot of other things too. On Wednesday, the group released its Peace Plan for a Safer America with the ambitious goal of reducing gun deaths and injuries by 50 percent in 10 years. “You see these shootings on TV every day and very little happening around it. It’s painful to watch,” David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland shooting and co-founder of March For Our Lives, told the Washington Post. “I think that this plan is something that we can truly—as a country and as Americans united against violence and fighting for peace—can get behind.” The plan Hogg expects the country to get behind includes radical changes to America’s gun laws, the federal government, and the U.S. Constitution itself. It would start by creating a national gun…
The Biggest Obstacle to Gun Control May Be the Supreme CourtA well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. (Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States). In the wake of recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the biggest obstacle to effective gun control may not be President Trump, Mitch McConnell or even the National Rifle Association (NRA) but the United States Supreme Court. It’s been a long time since the Supreme Court considered a major Second Amendment case. Eleven years ago, the court delivered a landmark victory to the gun-rights lobby in District of Columbia v. Heller—a 5-4 majority decision written by the late Justice Antonin Scalia that ruled, for the first time, the Second Amendment protected an individual right to own and bear firearms. Heller broke…
Department Of Labor Wants Carriers To Be Able To Ignore Court Rulings On Major Driver Pay …Trucker advocates have been making headway on the issue of driver pay reform. Multiple lawsuits brought the subject into the spotlight in recent years, but a new opinion published by the U.S. Department of Labor could threaten the progress that’s been made. One thing that sets trucker pay apart from the rest of the U.S. workforce is that most truckers are paid per mile, not per hour. But despite that, federal minimum wage laws still apply to truckers just like all other workers. In a lawsuit brought against PAM Transport, drivers argued that PAM had violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by not paying them at least minimum wage for all hours worked. The drivers claimed that since they were still performing job responsibilities even while not logging their time as ‘on duty,’ that…