Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Discover how the First Amendment safeguards speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition freedoms in the U.S. Explore its significance and key Supreme Court cases.

Public works projects in California aren’t dead but with multiple co-morbidities, they’re in poor health. The most conspicuous example is the high-speed rail, maybe the biggest construction burnout in ...

Five of Florida’s six ballot measures, including the citizen-led Amendment 4 on abortion access, do not include definitions. The other four definition-free measures came from the Legislature. Many ...

A controversial amendment on Kentucky's ballot asks voters to decide whether or not to alter the state's constitution to allow public funds to go to education outside the current public school system.

As Floridians prepare to vote on Amendment 4 this November, they may have a valid sketch of the measure in real-world application with the case of St. Pete Beach, a name that pops up among arguments ...

House Bill 3653, also known as the SAFE-T Act, started as a short, uncontroversial shell bill unanimously passed in the House and sent to the Senate. It resided there for almost two years, until, a ...

Early voting is underway in Louisiana, and on the ballot are four constitutional amendments. One of them, Amendment 2, is extremely intricate. If passed, it would be the most significant revision of ...

The polling on Amendment 3, which would do just that if 60% of voters approve it, has been tight. And voters are caught in a whirlwind of advertisements, with opposing sides presenting sharply ...

WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to fact-check Florida politicians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning team seeks to present the true facts, unaffected by agenda or biases. Florida’s Amendment 4 aims to ...