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HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania will soon convene a committee to decide how to spend the state’s first-ever funding for public defense, though experts cautioned the investment won’t be enough to level

The bills would create a program to license and regulate the research, possession, cultivation and distribution of marijuana for both medical and recreational use.

The legislation would create a cause of action in state courts to sue a police officer who “under color of law, subjects or causes to be subjected, including failing to intervene, any other person to the deprivation of any individual rights that create binding obligations on government actors secured by the bill of rights, article one of the state constitution.”

The longtime civil rights lawyer on the 14th amendment, a new center for Howard University – and resisting

Sherrilyn Ifill will be the featured speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Dinner at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26, in the Brown Ballroom at ISU.

It would create the “Anti-Red Flag Gun Seizure Act." Under the proposed law, “Any federal order of protection or other judicial order issued by a court to confiscate any firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition from any law-abiding citizen shall be considered an infringement on the people's right to keep and bear arms, as guaranteed by Amendment II of the Constitution of the United States and Article I, Section 23 of the Constitution of Missouri, within the borders of this state.�...

A Nebraska bill would end state and local enforcement of many federal acts that infringe on the right to keep and bear arms within the state.

The new language would stipulate that qualified immunity is not a defense in these cases. In effect, it would prohibit public employees and employers from invoking a defense that the “plaintiff’s rights, privileges, or immunities were not clearly established at the time of their deprivation in causes of action for unjustified use of force or violations of the New Jersey Civil Rights Act.”

A Nebraska bill would end state and local enforcement of many federal acts that infringe on the right to keep and bear arms within the state.

It is becoming an almost standard part of the preliminary appearance process in Yakima County Superior Court, particularly in the middle of the month.