OAKLAND, California, Dec. 9 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Dec. 7, 2023: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general in an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs challenging Mississippi's constitutional provisions that permanently disenfranchise persons convicted of certain felony offenses. The brief was filed in an en banc Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal in Hopkins v. Watson and argues that Mississippi i  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Dec. 8 -- The Georgia Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: Over past winters, volunteers from across the Southeast and Gulf states provided more than 6,700 observations of monarch butterflies. This winter, the partnership of universities, agencies and other organizations called Monarchs Overwintering in Southeastern States is requesting the public's continued involvement in reporting sightings. Sonia Altizer, a University of Georgia ecology profe  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 9 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Dec. 8, 2023: Today, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, and Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen co-led a coalition of 26 states and the Arizona State Legislature in a letter calling on the Biden Administration's Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco ("ATF") to drop a proposed rule that violates the Second Amendment. The proposed rule significantly e  more