Connecticut advocates are calling on the General Assembly to pass the state s Voting Rights Act. The bill would enshrine the protections of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, and eliminate certain barriers to voting specific to Connecticut. The bill would provide new legal tools to fight discriminatory voting rules, expand language assistance for voters with limited English, and adopt strong protections against voter intimidation. .
By Jessica Pishko for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.Broadcast version by Roz Brown for Texas News Service reporting for the Pulitzer Center-Public News Service Collaboration. Last summer, the sheriff of Coryell County in Central Texas took to an elevated platform in a small Las Vegas ballroom and made an unusual announcement: He was a “born-again sheriff,” he said, having “realized that I wasn’t doing my job 100%.” Sheriff Scott Williams runs a 92-bed jail and provides security for the courthouse in Gatesville. He oversees around two dozen employees. .
On the opening day of Florida s legislative session, Republican lawmakers filed bills in the House and Senate to ban abortions after six weeks. In a move which would tighten the 15-week ban they approved last year, Republicans are pushing an even tougher ban, despite knowing most people aren t aware they re pregnant before six weeks. Sen. .
Nebraska would have one of the strictest abortion laws in the country should Legislative Bill 626 become law. It recently passed out of committee. The bill calls for banning abortions after a "fetal heartbeat" can be detected by ultrasound, usually around six weeks of pregnancy. .
After Kentucky s Supreme Court last week denied a request to block abortion bans which went into effect last summer, the ACLU of Kentucky and Planned Parenthood Federation of America said they will bring another lawsuit forward. The two state laws banned most abortions and abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court a overturning of Roe v. .