Texas Court Blocks Revenge Porn Law

The Texas appeals court has blocked the earlier revenge porn law [the Relationship Privacy Act, SB 1135(2015)] due to Constitutional concerns. The law previously prohibited the promotion or disclosure of intimate images without obtaining consent from the individual(s) depicted. Lawmakers intended SB 1135 to stop revenge porn. It covered those images taken in circumstances in which the […]
Just pure frustration

How months of inaction led 20 Republicans to take a stand on immigration Before they were “dreamers,” they were just neighbors to California Republican Rep. Jeff Denham. They played basketball with his kids. They were the pride of the immigrant families upon which the Central Valley’s agricultural economy relies. And now, under threat of deportation, […]
Deporting 350,000 Immigrants

Jeff Sessions just reopened the door to deporting 350,000 immigrants whose cases had been closed Attorney General Sessions’s latest ruling could make the years-long backlog in immigration courts much worse. Sessions’s decision was issued in the form of a ruling on an individual immigration court case, one that the Board of Immigration Appeals (the semi-appellate […]
Three reasons Trump’s new immigration rule should make your blood boil

Once again, the Trump administration is looking to punish immigrants. And once again, innocent children are getting hurt in the process. This time, however, many of those innocent children are likely to be U.S. citizens. On Tuesday, NBC News reported that the Trump administration is readying a new rule that should make your blood boil. The initiative, in the works for […]