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Unlike S. 2613, this bill solely focused upon the statutory rights for sexual assault survivors. The bill was ordered to be reported to the House floor on July 7, 2016. The House passed the bill unanimously on September 6, 2016. [15] The Yea-Nay vote count was 399 - 0. [16] Speaker Paul Ryan held a press conference and discussed the bipartisan ...
"South Carolina should be run by South Carolinians. If the federal government can tell us what to do with these records, it can tell us we can't keep records at all. The 10th Amendment is the legal and spiritual guardian of state rights. Washington, D.C., is a long way from South Carolina, and the federal government needs to keep its distance." [7]
McClatchy’s reporting exposed how South Carolina has “effectively become the playground” for the companies that purchase accident victims’ future payments, the bill’s sponsor said.
Donna Major, left, and Katie Skeen, right. The two were murdered by Brandon Council during a Conway bank robbery in 2017. Biden reduced Council’s sentence from the death penalty to life in prison.
The Crime Victims' Rights Act, (CVRA) 18 U.S.C. § 3771, is part of the United States Justice for All Act of 2004, Pub. L. No. 108-405, 118 Stat. 2260 (effective Oct. 30, 2004). [1] The CVRA enumerates the rights afforded to victims in federal criminal cases and victims of offenses committed in the District of Columbia.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Public safety legislation unveiled Wednesday by local lawmakers in the nation's capital is aimed at bringing down spiraling violent crimes rates that have stoked public anxiety ...
The Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018 was a proposed bill to classify lynching (defined as bodily injury on the basis of perceived race, color, religion or nationality) a federal hate crime in the United States. The largely symbolic bill aimed to recognize and apologize for historical governmental failures to prevent lynching in the ...
Two Black men were lynched in Florence County, South Carolina near the border with Williamsburg County, South Carolina for allegedly having relations with a white woman. The news did not reach the national media until January 8, 1922, and so is recorded as the first lynching of 1922 in America. [ 1 ]