by Molly Horak | May 31, 2019 | Newsclips
Courts cannot incarcerate people based solely on inability to pay court-imposed fines. The U.S. Constitution and Oklahoma Constitution prohibit jailing a person without first determining whether their failure to pay is willful.
by Molly Horak | May 31, 2019 | Newsclips
It is among the most mundane of routines: Arrive at a hotel. Enter the hotel. And when in Vegas, the rest is supposed to stay there. But, when the rapper Meek Mill arrived at a Las Vegas hotel Saturday for a hotel club party, the rapper says he was stopped, told he...
by Stanley Augustin | May 31, 2019 | Press Releases
Despite abandoning plans to close all but two of nine polling sites in 2018 in the wake of local and national backlash, voting rights advocates condemn the decision of Randolph County election officials to renew consideration of polling site closures in this...
by Molly Horak | May 29, 2019 | Newsclips
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking at a luncheon on Tuesday, made clear what would happen if a Supreme Court vacancy should materialize in the midst of the 2020 election season: “Uh, we’d fill it.”
by Molly Horak | May 29, 2019 | Newsclips
With his party now in the White House, McConnell said Tuesday he would try to push through any nomination that President Trump might make to the high court — even if it comes during an election year. Some saw that stance, which McConnell has signaled before, as...