On Tuesday Arkansas State Senator Jason Rapert filed Senate Bill 13 during a special legislative session aiming to ban abortion at any stage of pregnancy.
Over the past half-century or so, American law enforcement and popular culture have conferred an extra level of seriousness and gravity to “hate crimes” as opposed to regular crimes. The definition of a hate crime, according to the FBI, is a regular crime with an added element of bias. “A ‘criminal’ offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity,” the FBI.gov website states.
Former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke announced a Texas gubernatorial bid last month, but a new Quinnipiac University poll of registered Texas voters appears to bode ill for the Democrat's chances of defeating incumbent GOP Gov. Greg Abbott.
"CBP doesn't have the people to properly patrol our nation's borders but we do have the time to step away from work hours to have a conversation on ‘unconscious bias.'"
Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz said this week he would support former President Donald Trump becoming the new Speaker of the House. While this may sound outlandish, it is not as impossible as it might seem.