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Prevent transfers of equipment inappropriate for local policing, such as military weapons, long-range acoustic devices, grenade launchers, weaponized drones, armored military vehicles, and grenades or similar explosives.
Require that recipients certify that they can account for all military weapons and equipment. In 2012, the weapons portion of the 1033 program was temporarily suspended after DOD found that a local sheriff gifted out army-surplus Humvees and other supplies. This bill would prohibit re-gifting and require recipients to account for all DOD weapons and equipment.
The bill adds requirements to enforce tracking mechanisms that keep up with and control transfers of the equipment, implements policies ensuring that police agencies can’t surplus the equipment for resale, and defines drones more clearly. ....
Right-Wing Supreme Court Justices May Weaken Key Provision of Voting Rights Act George Frey / AFP via Getty Images, Ian Hutchinson,TILF via Unsplash; Edited: Truthout By The partisan battle over voting rights is boiling over this week, as conservative Supreme Court justices are poised to uphold two provisions of an Arizona voting law that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) argues violates the landmark Voting Rights Act, and the House passes the For the People Act, the most sweeping election reform package in decades. On Tuesday, Supreme Court justices signaled their willingness to weaken another key provision of the historic Voting Rights Act that prohibits laws resulting in racial discrimination. The Arizona provisions being challenged are common throughout the nation, requiring in-person Election Day voters cast their votes in their assigned precinct and specifying that only certain persons may deliver someone else’s completed mail-in ballot to a polling ....
comments This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday delivered another blow to Donald Trump s efforts to block the enforcement of a subpoena for his accounting firm to turn over eight years of the ex-president s tax returns and other financial documents to a grand jury convened by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. while Trump was still in office. Vance welcomed the high court s unsigned, one-sentence order in a short statement: The work continues. Advertisement: Ryan Thomas, a spokesperson for the progressive advocacy group Stand Up America, also celebrated the decision, saying that Trump s shameful effort to block his financial records from investigators is yet another reminder of the lengths he s gone to to avoid accountability. ....
Liberal groups that pushed for expanded mail-in voting for the 2020 elections are fighting to prevent Republicans in battleground states from tightening the rules that likely helped Democrats score wins last year. ....