Legal immigration plays a key role in building our nation and deserves our full support. But today we are facing rampant illegal border crossings that have a high cost to our state and nation. According to a report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, in Maryland alone we are paying $1.4 billion per year [...]

Attempts to make double-dipping in the state pension program legal began in 1999, when legislators considered a bill allowing certain retired public employees to work in the university system without losing their benefits. Assemblyman Kelly Thomas, D-Las Vegas, argued that the state demanded higher standards in education but discouraged teachers from returning to work after [...]

The May 26 arrest of former Serbian military leader Gen. R. Mladic evokes serious questions of both moral and legal character. Clearly aware of the shakiness of the indictment Mladic is about to face, the global media tend to avoid touching upon the legal aspect of the Mladic case. It is an open secret that [...]

Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that the state of Arizona is well within its rights to require employers to check the immigration status of prospective workers through the federal government database known as E-Verify. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce had sued the state over the law, arguing immigration enforcement is exclusively the purview [...]

Assembly Democrats say the Secure Communities program, which sends fingerprints of local arrestees to the ICE, ensnares low-level offenders. Republicans say the action would undermine federal law. Reporting from Sacramento— California lawmakers have taken steps to opt out of a controversial federal immigration enforcement program, joining a growing number of states that say it harms [...]

CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. — Washington County supervisors are set to follow the lead of other neighboring counties and introduce stricter limits governing protests at funerals. The move follows a Supreme Court case in March which determined that funeral protests were first amendment protected speech, but that reasonable limits could be imposed to protect the families of [...]

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The second phase of Montana’s new medical marijuana overhaul will go into effect Wednesday, allowing the state health department to issue pot cards under new regulations — but patients are confused about what happens next under the new restrictive law. When Gov. Brian Schweitzer allowed the law to go into effect [...]

Some public employees in Nevada continue to legally collect salaries and retirement checks at the same time while the state struggles with a historic budget deficit. Nearly 700 state employees have taken advantage of the state’s double-dipping law since it was passed in 2001, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported. The law allows some retired workers on [...]

An official in Inner Mongolia is disputing an Amnesty International report that parts of the region are under martial law. “We did not enforce martial law. Everything is normal,” said Chao Lumen, an official with the information department of Xilingol prefecture. In the report released Friday, Amnesty International detailed protests in and around the city [...]

A law scheduled to go into effect July 1 to require women to wait 72 hours and consult a crisis pregnancy center adviser before getting an abortion violates First Amendment rights, according to a lawsuit filed Friday by Planned Parenthood in U.S. District Court in Sioux Falls, S.D. Calling South Dakota’s abortion laws the most [...]