With overcrowding at Washington’s two juvenile detention centers, the Department of Children, Youth and Families is asking state lawmakers for money to open a new facility.  The department wants to add a smaller, minimum and medium security site to help alleviate pressure on the other two centers, which had to pause admissions earlier this year because […]

Unlike in most democratic countries, United States citizens cannot weigh in on policy questions through a national referendum. But roughly half of American state constitutions do afford their citizens some version of this power, known as “direct democracy,” allowing citizens who collect enough signatures to place statutory or constitutional proposals on the ballot and pass […]

The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) on Monday declined to hear Shiva Ayyadurai’s challenge to the “natural born” citizen clause, after his effort to run for president was blocked. The “natural born citizen” clause in the Constitution says only someone born a U.S. citizen can become president or vice president. The rule has sparked a number of debates and legal […]

Over 800 Internal Revenue Service employees still owe millions in back taxes despite heavy criticism from Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), who is hoping the level of tax waste will be squashed by billionaire Elon Musk, the newly tapped co-leader of the Department of Government Efficiency.  In a letter to the Iowa senator sent on Nov. 8 and shared exclusively with the […]

Norway is to enforce a strict minimum age limit on social media of 15 as the government ramped up its campaign against tech companies it says are “pitted against small children’s brains”. The Norwegian prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, conceded it would be “an uphill battle” but said politicians must intervene to protect children from […]

Retail industry groups applauded a ruling by the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas that struck down the Department of Labor’s final overtime rule.  The court found that the Biden-Harris Labor Department’s 2024 overtime rule’s July 1, 2024, increase was unlawful as well as the scheduled Jan. 1, 2025, increase. The rule […]

Danny Davis returned home Tuesday after more than 32 years in prison for a murder that DNA evidence proves he did not commit.   He was released after a judge vacated his convictions in the 1992 murder and robbery of a woman in Cairo, Illinois. The woman was brutally stabbed 38 times in her home, where […]

The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Tuesday it will determine whether an alleged violation of a man’s constitutional right to counsel more than 30 years ago has any bearing on his 2021 drunk driving conviction. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to hear an appeal. Under Colorado law, driving under the influence is […]

For all the lectures and shaming over “accepting election results,” Democrats are now refusing to accept the results of the Pennsylvania Senate race.  Republican Dave McCormick has won the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania, defeating incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. With over 95% of the votes tallied, McCormick leads Casey by nearly 40,000 votes. As of now, the race is not […]