Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law on Monday that will make it easier for people with criminal records to become licensed in their chosen field. Senate Bill (SB) 1691 was signed into law by Stitt on Monday, and aims to make it easier for people with criminal history to get licensed in a…Read More
Oklahoma is on the national stage as the abortion debate continues. Gov. Kevin Stitt was on Fox News on Sunday, warning Native American tribes not to create safe havens for abortions. Stitt is defending the state’s strict abortion law but he is also calling out tribal clinics that could find loopholes. More than half of…Read More
Following the unprecedented leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization last week, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) strongly opposed the so-called “Women’s Health Protection Act,” which he has said would be more accurately described as a bill to promote unlimited abortions on demand until birth, when the bill came…Read More
A former Oklahoma death row inmate and tribal citizen whose case led to a landmark ruling on tribal sovereignty was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison by a federal judge. Patrick Murphy, 53, a citizen of the Muscogee Nation, was originally sentenced to die in McIntosh County for the 1999 killing of George Jacobs. But…Read More
The mother of a Union High School student is standing up for her daughter. She filed a lawsuit against the district, claiming Union Public Schools failed to protect her daughter from repeated bullying. “I don’t want any more attention on my daughter,” the mother told NewsChannel 8, asking to remain anonymous for her daughter’s safety.…Read More
Multiple new state abortion laws have led to a wave of unanswered questions in the wake of the McGirt Decision. Specifically, will the state be able to enforce abortion bans on tribal land? News 9 legal analyst Irven Box has read through each of the abortion laws recently passed, and the ones making their way…Read More
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Senate has given final approval to Senate Bill 1367, which increases the penalties for those who purchase medical marijuana and then sell the product to non-cardholders. The measure now heads to the governor’s desk for his signature. Sen. Lonnie Paxton, R-Tuttle, authored the legislation he said will fix a loophole that…Read More
The full Senate has given approval to a bill creating an income tax credit to help defray some of the costs associated with adoptions. Sen. Chuck Hall, R-Perry, is the principal Senate author of House Bill 3088. Rep. Kyle Hilbert, R-Bristow, is principal House author of the measure. While many services and costs of adoptions…Read More
Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor, state Superintendent of Public Instruction and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joy Hofmeister and 16 members of the Legislature exchanged barbs on Wednesday about school restrooms. At issue is a years-old — and until recently noncontroversial — Stillwater Public Schools policy concerning transgender bathroom use. The matter was first raised by Oklahoma…Read More
Republican Oklahoma Rep. Markwayne Mullin is introducing legislation that would punish abortionists who perform gruesome partial birth abortions with five years to a life sentence in prison without the possibility of parole, The Daily Wire has learned. “Partial birth abortion is a cruel and gruesome means to ending human life,” Mullin told The Daily Wire. “As a…Read More