Here's a write-through on the latest gun massacre in a U.S. school — with 17 dead apparently killed by a former student at the Broward County, Fla., high school with an AR-15. He's now in custody. It's not too soon to talk gun politics. If not now, when?
The Arkansas Supreme Court has racked up $136,774.62 in legal bills so far paying private lawyers in Judge Wendell Griffen's lawsuit against them for removing him from all cases related to the death penalty.
The Democrat-Gazette today wrote about a topic, I've been trying to ignore. That is Sen. Trent Garner's latest publicity stunt, a "sermon protection" law that copies demagoguery pioneered in Texas.
The New York Times reports today on the rise of the Religious Left, a movement somewhat embodied Friday in Arkansas by a demonstration in support of Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen's actions in a case involving the death penalty. A state senator's comment was Biblically fitting, too, if you recall the Pharisees.
House Speaker Jeremy Gillam is clearly running for higher office. He has slipped a resolution onto the agenda of the House Rules Committee he controls to clear the way for impeachment proceedings against
Sen. Trent Garner has used the Senate information office to distribute a statement in which he calls on the state House to issue articles of impeachment of Judge Wendell Griffen for his trial by the Senate.
Calls for an investigation followed the execution of Kenneth Williams in Arkansas Thursday night. Body movement, sounds, labored breathing and a moan indicated something was amiss to several witnesses, though supporters of the death penalty called the movements "involuntary" and termed the killing "flawless."
State Sen. Trent Garner told the AP that he will not attempt to override Gov. Hutchinson's veto of his bill that would have criminalized some forms of protest.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has vetoed a "mass picketing" bill and a bill to pay for panic buttons in public schools. The first he viwed as an infringement on free speech, the second as an expense school districts should bear.
The Senate today approved SB 724 to provide exemptions from a new expanded concealed weapon bill to allow them to be banned from college athletic events. The vote was 23-7 and the bill goes to the governor.
UN experts are speaking out against danger to freedom of assembly in legislation proposed by Sen. Trent Garner in Arkansas and mirrored by Republican legislation in 18 other states.