The Equity is excited to announce their 2023 Earn and Learn with The Equity scholarship recipients. Each year, the scholarship is opened to high school seniors and current community college, junior c.
The Taylorville Kiwanis Club heard from the 2 Taylorville School Resource Officers during their weekly meeting at the Taylorville Moose Lodge on Tuesday.
Sargent Alan Mills (right) and O.
By John Kruzel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will not testify at an upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee hearing expected to focus on judicial ethics, he said in a letter on Tuesday to the committee chair.
The committee’s Democratic chairman, Dick Durbin, had asked the chief justice to appear before the panel to address potential reforms to ethics rules governing the justices. The senator cited “a steady stream of revelations regarding justices falling short of the ethical standards.”
Roberts said he would “respectfully decline” the invitation, adding that such appearances by chief justices were exceedingly rare given concerns about the separation of powers between the three branches of the U.S. government.
A Supreme Court spokesperson issued the response, which included five pages of information about current judicial ethics standards.
Durbin had earlier asked Roberts to investigate ties between Justice Clarence Tho
(Reuters) – North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum on Monday signed into law a bill that would ban most abortions, creating an exception for rape and incest victims but only during the first six weeks of pregnancy.
The law, which makes it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion, provides other exceptions including to save the life of the mother or in cases where her health is at serious risk. But rape and incest victims would have to carry their pregnancies to term unless “the probable gestational age of the unborn child is six weeks or less,” Senate Bill 2150 says.
The bill cleared both houses of the North Dakota legislature with veto-proof majorities and is the latest to pass in a Republican-led state since the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned the federal right to an abortion, enabling states to impose restrictions.
At least 13 states have enacted abortion bans while North Dakota joins a number of other states to ban abortion after a certain period of ges
The Taylorville Park District swore in the new Park Board, approved a new dog park, and budget at their monthly meeting. The board heard from Quinn Broverman, who passed around the new approved budge.