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The state’s Supreme Court moved to end a “dead zone” in the dysfunctional public defender system.

Criminal justice reformers have long complained that the state’s rules on appointing public defenders leave poor defendants without a lawyer as they wait to be indicted.

Mississippi Supreme Court says indigent defendants must have an attorney before indictment and not languish in jail awaiting representation.

The Arizona Senate gave final approval to a bill to expand a current law banning state and local enforcement of federal gun control to specifically include certain federal taxes on firearms.

Last Month, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed a “Federal Firearm Enforcement Limitation Act” that almost guarantees that federal gun control will continue being enforced by the state

House Bill 178 (HB178) would require state and local law enforcement agencies to get a warrant before using a drone or other unmanned aircraft to gather evidence or other information pertaining to criminal conduct or conduct in violation of a statute or regulation.

Texan politicians are looking to introduce a bill that would enable the state to issue a gold-backed digital currency

Driven by inflation, de-dollarization trends and underfunded pensions, US state bills are calling for recognition of gold and silver as money.

Last week, a Maine committee held a hearing on a bill that would ban “material support or resources” for warrantless federal surveillance programs. The passage of the bill would take an essential step every state needs to take at a time when the federal government seems unlikely to ever end unconstitutional spying on its own.

The proposal would set up an hourly payment system and put public defenders on staff to bolster their ranks to represent the hundreds of people without legal representation