"LD 2004 seeks to honor the promise Maine made more than two centuries ago to recognize tribal sovereignty and to join the 49 other states in the 21st century by acting as an ally, not an oppressor."
State advisors to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights plan to apply more pressure to Maine leaders to overhaul the state's indigent public defense system with a report that finds the system may disproportionately affect people in federally protected.