that african-american defendants have availed themselves of the stand your ground defense more frequently than have an glo defendants. that was a congressional hearing on tuesday to examine stand your ground laws. the same hearing where trayvon s mother testified alongside another grieving florida mom. both women were calling the memory of their slain sons brutally gunned down in two separately and senseless acts of violence. cruz was alluding to a story of the conservative website the daily caller that was later repeated and rebuked on fox news. the article entitled blacks benefit from florida stand your ground law at disproportionate rate argue that african-americans benefited at a rate higher than the proportion of the state s population. saying that because one third of stand your ground claims were made by black defendants, and those who used the defense were
phone records of citizens in france and spain. the u.s. spy chiefs flatly denied that. it turns out those records were collected by french and spanish intelligence, not by the united states. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. and now to those health care issues. kathleen sebelius, the person in charge of the botched health care rollout, is testifying on capitol hill today. she s expected to blame the contractors who built the problem-plagued website. yesterday, for the first time, the obama administration issued a direct apology for healthcare.gov. i want to apologize to you that the website has not worked as well as it should. she was also grilled about a wave of cancellation notices hitting small businesses and individuals who buy their own insurance. she said people who get those notices will be able to find better replacement plans on the web site and, in some cases, for cheaper. on the other side of the capitol, another high-profile hearing. the senate judiciary com
tell your doctor your medical history. and ask your doctor about celebrex. for a body in motion. in the rewrite rewriting stand your ground laws, the objective of the senate judiciary subcommittee e that held a hearing today. the focus was on florida where so-called justifiable homicides have tripled since the stand your ground law was enacted there. senators were asked to consider jordan davis. lucia mcbath told the senators about her son jordan, the 17-year-old boy shot and killed sitting in the back seat of a car by a man who objected to the loud music coming from the car. michael dunn was arrested the next day and is a waiting trial in florida for first degree murder. lucia mcbath believes that florida s stand your ground law emboldened michael dunn to feel he had a right to settle an argument about loud music with something louder his gun.
it turns out those records were collected by french and spanish intelligence, not by the united states. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. and now to those health care issues. kathleen sebelius, the person in charge of the botched health care rollout, is testifying on capitol hill today. she s expected to blame the contractors who built the problem-plagued website. yesterday, for the first time, the obama administration issued a direct apology for healthcare.gov. i want to apologize to you that the website has not worked as well as it should. she was also grilled about a wave of cancellation notices hitting small businesses and individuals who buy their own insurance. she said people who get those notices will be able to find better replacement plans on the web site and, in some cases, for cheaper. on the other side of the capitol, another high-profile hearing. the senate judiciary committee heard testimony on the state s controversial stand your ground laws. sabrina ful
trayvon martin, testifying earlier today on capitol hill, about so-called stand your ground laws. these laws, i with are now on the books in no less than 22 states, have made it much easier for people to claim self defense when they fire their weapons. but they make it too easy. that s the question right now. and joining us now is lucy mcbath, who also testified before the senate today about the loss of her son jordan, who was killed by a man that later claimed he was justified under florida s stand your ground law and also representative marsha fudge, democrat of ohio. if i might begin with you, ms. mcbath, we would like to express, obviously, our condolences for your son s loss and also our gratitude that you are speaking out so courageously on this deeply troubling issue. and i would like our audience to take a listen to some of your testimony earlier today. but you can never really know my boy.