Tag Archives: Federal Law Matters

Have you ever taken notes while listening to someone talk? Perhaps you were sitting in a lecture hall at college and your professor was expounding on something you knew would show up in a test. Or maybe you were at a work conference and what was being covered was relevant to the direction your company […]

Michigan has been known for it’s tough-on-sex-offenders approach for a long time. However, there’s a difference between wanting to make sure that convicted sex offenders pay for their crimes, and violating people’s rights. But the state of Michigan seems to struggle with separating the two at least according to one federal court. For years there […]

After a decade-long crusade by African American legislators, the United States House of Representatives passed a proposal that will reduce the disparity in punishments between crack cocaine possession and powder cocaine possession.

According to the Second Amendment, Americans have the right to hold and bear arms for self-defense. In a recent decision from the U.S Supreme Court, this right was closely guarded, after it was ruled that the Second Amendment protections extend to the states and local law in addition to federal law.