SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes attempts to overturn outdated low-level cocaine convictions in a new letter to Congress. Reyes and District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine lead a group of 25 attorneys general calling on Congress to reform criminal laws that affect disproportionately low cocaine offenders. “When Congress … Read more
Joins a bipartisan coalition of 25 attorneys general calling on Congress to extend existing penal relief to anyone convicted of minor crack cocaine offenses Sept. 5, 2021 – OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined a bipartisan coalition of 25 attorneys general last week to urge Congress to amend the First Step Act of … Read more
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul supports state regulations against the commercial sale of firearms to anyone under the age of 21. Raoul, along with 17 other attorneys general, filed a brief supportive ban that is challenged in the Hirschfeld lawsuit against Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives. The lawsuit challenges federal law banning individuals … Read more
S.14 attorneys general joined Governor Kristi Noem’s fight to restore South Dakota’s July 4th fireworks display, the latest in a year-long showdown between state and federal officials. On Wednesday, attorneys general of 16 states filed amicus briefs in support of Noem’s lawsuit against the Home Office to restore the July 4th fireworks display at Mount … Read more
NEW YORK – Audrey Strauss, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, assistant director of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the unsealing of an indictment on August 25, who accuse George Constantine, Marc Elefant, Andrew Dowd, and Sady Ribeiro of the Postal … Read more
Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor has filed additional petitions with the US Supreme Court urging judges to overturn last year’s ruling that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s reservation still remains. A petition was filed in the case of former Tulsa police officer Shannon Kepler, whose conviction of manslaughter was overturned for being a member of the … Read more
BALTIMORE (WJZ) – The quadruple shootout in Germantown last week that killed a person is just one of the most recent examples of the dangers of ghost weapons – weapons that are ordered online as kits and assembled at home. They don’t have a serial number and no background checks are required to purchase one. … Read more
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New York attorney general Letitia James was commended for leading an intense investigation that led to the resignation of Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday. It is now asked if she was also carefully following the proceedings against the police involved in the death of a black man in her care last year in Rochester. That … Read more
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is suing the Boston Police Department for their refusal to release internal affairs records on the dismissed Police Commissioner Dennis White. Healey’s office filed the complaint with the Suffolk Superior Court on Thursday, requesting confirmation from the court that the documents are public records and that the law enforcement agency … Read more