A majority of likely 2022 voters in Washington State support a ban on military-style assault weapons like the AR-15 rifle, with over fifty percent expressing strong support, NPI’s most recent statewide survey has found.
Category: Civil Liberties
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offers new legislation to prevent gun violence
While the U.S. Senate once more strives to come up with a watered down gun safety bill, the government of Canada is preparing decisive action to cap gun culture and get military-style assault weapons out of Canadians’ hands.
Republicans lament slaughter of kids and teachers in Uvalde, but make it clear they’ll do nothing to stop it from happening again
Republicans cannot go against the NRA and the groups aligned with it, not even after the slaughter of schoolchildren and their teachers in a Republican-run state.
Fifteen slaughtered in Uvalde, Texas by gunman who targeted elementary school
The shooting is the country’s deadliest so far this year, and horrifically similar to a shooting from almost ten years ago, in which a gunman attacked Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Reagan Dunn votes against reproductive rights as Democrats vow to make abortion care an issue in the 2022 midterms
If you missed the movie “Twister,” watch what Dunn, who is challenging Representative Kim Schrier, says and does on reproductive rights. His mother, the late United States Representative Jennifer Dunn, who retired in 2004, was a Reagan Republican, but pro-choice.
Joe Manchin joins Republicans to defeat Women’s Health Protection Act in U.S. Senate
The bill, known as the Women’s Health Protection Act, had been expected to get filibustered. Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer staged the vote anyway to put Republicans on record as opposed to reproductive rights
Distract and distort: Republicans declare Alito Court the victim after anti-Roe draft leaks
The extreme right wing has moved quickly to distract and distort in the wake of Politico’s publication of Samuel Alito’s draft opinion holding that the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was egregiously wrong.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts admits that leaked Alito draft is authentic
A draft of a majority opinion overturning the United States Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and leaked to Politico is authentic, Chief Justice John Roberts has admitted in a statement released by the Court.
Draft of opinion overturning Roe v. Wade leaks out of the United States Supreme Court
Authored by Samuel Alito, one of George W. Bush’s two Supreme Court appointees, the draft declares that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start” and “the decision has had damaging consequences.”
Putin’s war in Ukraine isn’t going well, but with no free press to hold him accountable, public opinion isn’t turning against him
Former U.S. Representative Don Bonker explains how Russia’s lack of a free press has allowed Vladimir Putin to manipulate public opinion in his favor even though Putin’s murderous war in Ukraine isn’t getting results for the Kremlin.
Way beyond political theater: Greg Abbott is hiking prices on Texans by choking commerce
Business leaders are furious that truck traffic across the border with Mexico has mostly ground to a halt due to the implementation of Abbott’s scheme requiring trucks to be “inspected” by state level officials answerable to him.
A late winter thaw in Congress yields another long-haul win for Senator Patty Murray
Last week, Congress approved an omnibus budget bill, long-overdue legislation to rescue the Postal Service, and a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
A majority of Washington State voters favor expanding the size of the U.S. Supreme Court
50% of 700 likely 2022 voters surveyed last month for NPI by Public Policy Polling said they strongly or somewhat supported passing legislation to expand the Court, while 41% were strongly or somewhat opposed. 8% were not sure.
Two NPI priority bills get concurrence and head to Governor Jay Inslee for signature
Senate Bill 5228 (providing flexible new revenue authority to Sound Transit) and House Bill 1630 (prohibiting the carrying of weapons at local government meetings and election sites) have completed their journey through the legislative process.