U.S. Senator James Lankford delivered a floor speech on Thursday saying that the problems at the U.S. southern border are being exacerbated by a lack of progress on immigration policy. Lankford has been working on immigration policy issues, but no action has been taken by the Senate to move it forward.
A California appeals court overturned a lower court order that had imperiled the state’s assisted suicide law, but a longer legal fight may loom because the ruling skirted the larger issue of whether the legislation was unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeals in the city of Riverside on Tuesday did…Read More
A former U.S. Senate staffer and former state representative will fill two of the top positions in Gov.-elect Kevin Stitt’s new administration, surrounding a first-time governor with a combination of federal, state and even municipal political experience. Michael Junk, Tulsa’s deputy mayor and a former staffer for U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and former U.S. Sen.…Read More
Recreational marijuana supporters haven’t given up a desire to get the issue on the ballot, despite having a steeper hill to climb following the Nov. 6 election. Increased voter turnout resulted in a larger number of signatures required for a citizen-led effort to change a law or amend the constitution. Voters cast 824,831 votes for…Read More
Virginia Catholics are praising the decision of a joint commission of the state legislature to take no action on a study on assisted suicide. Last year, Del. Kaye Kory (D-Fairfax) asked the Virginia state legislature to consider legalizing so-called “medical aid-in-dying” or physician-assisted suicide. After receiving public comment, the Joint Commission on Health Care, which…Read More
Marc Nuttle, a Norman attorney with decades of experience in national Republican politics, will lead the transition team of Gov.-elect Kevin Stitt, who enters office in two months. Nuttle, 69, formerly served as executive director of the National Republican Congressional Committee and was national campaign manager for televangelist Pat Robertson’s presidential bid in 1988. Stitt’s…Read More
The latest death penalty case to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court was not about if a death-row prisoner should be executed, but how. And the newest member of the court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, could be the deciding vote on the outcome. The Nov. 6 oral arguments considered if an alternative execution method could…Read More
Republicans and Democrats lost seats in Tuesday’s legislative races, which highlighted a sharp urban-rural divide in Oklahoma politics. Every seat Republicans lost were in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa metro areas. Democrats lost seats in rural Oklahoma, plus one Senate district that covers Lawton and another in Tulsa. Continue reading…
