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The legislation would ban any person, including any public officer or employee of the state and its political subdivisions, from enforcing any past, present or future federal “acts, laws, executive orders, administrative orders, court orders, rules, or regulations” that infringe on the right to keep and bear arms.

A bill filed in the Indiana Senate would reform the state’s asset forfeiture laws to prohibit the state from taking a person’s property without a criminal conviction in most situations. Passage of the bill would also take a small step toward closing a federal loophole that allows police to circumvent more strict state forfeiture laws by passing cases off to the feds.

DOVER, Del. (Jan. 20, 2022) – On Tuesday, a Delaware House committee passed a bill that would help protect the right of authorized medical marijuana patients to buy or possess a firearm in the state despite federal law to the contrary. The measure would also prohibit Delaware police from supplying information on patients to the […]

The legislation would replace the state's civil asset forfeiture process with a criminal process. The proposed law would require a criminal conviction before prosecutors could proceed with asset forfeiture in most cases.

The legislation would create a cause of action in state courts to sue any 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 proposed law specifies that qualified immunity is not a defense in cases brought under this statute.

A Washington state House committee held a hearing on a bill that would create a process to sue police officers in state court for using excessive force or taking other actions that violate individual rights without the possibility of “qualified immunity” as a defense.

A bill introduced in the West Virginia House would take on federal gun control; past, present and future. Passage into law would represent a major step toward ending federal acts that infringe on the right to keep and bear arms within the state and improve on an awful law passed last year.

According to the Office of Public Defense Services, more than 45 people who qualify for a public defender don’t have one. As of Friday, 19 were in custody on pre-trial offenses. While the pandemic is partly to blame, public defenders argue the system has long been under-staffed, overworked and inefficient.

A bill introduced in the Nebraska Legislature would take on federal gun control and end state and local enforcement of many federal acts that infringe on the right to keep and bear arms within the state

The Hawaii legislature will consider three bills that would reform asset forfeiture laws to prohibit the state from taking property without a criminal conviction in most cases during the 2022 legislative session. But the legislation leaves a loophole open that allows police to circumvent stricter state laws by passing cases off to the feds.