Since Republicans have been in charge of state government since 1998, and seem likely to continue their streak, campaign donations flow in substantial amounts. Over the past decade, Republican donors contributed at least 70% of the total money raised in Florida election campaigns.
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In Texas, performing an abortion is now a felony punishable by up to life in prison
Texas now has three significant abortion bans in place and several administrative regulations governing the procedure, setting up a potential conflict as the largest state to ban abortion navigates this new legal landscape.
A 1996 Law That Keeps People in Prison (And on Death Row) On Technicalities
The Supreme Court has just extended legislation that many have never heard of. Experts say the "Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act" is actually putting innocent people behind bars, and most of the cases it affects have nothing to do with terrorism or capital punishment.
The Merging of Church and State and the End of Roe v. Wade
The question is not whether Roe v. Wade is moral, nor if it is flawed. The question is if it had been ratified not only by the courts but by the people many times before in the past 50 years.
LGBT Community in Florida hits One Million
The social reality and demographic pattern have not prevented the Republican Party in the local Congress from passing laws regarded as discriminatory by quite a few and from curtailing the social welfare allocation in the government budget