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Sep 3, 2024 | 
msn.com | Udi Ofer
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Udi Ofer
Not that long ago, in the summer of 2020, the moment seemed ripe for meaningful criminal-justice reform in America. Millions of people joined demonstrations denouncing the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, among others, and to call for racial justice. There was a feeling that real progress was about to be made in tackling the problem of mass incarceration in the United States that began in the 1970s and that disproportionately affects communities of color.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
forward.com | Udi Ofer
Shocking evidence has emerged over the past several months of rampant abuses of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons and military detention facilities. Earlier this month, obtained by Channel 12 in Israel purportedly showed Israeli soldiers sexually abusing and torturing a Palestinian man being held in Sde Teiman, a military facility in the Negev desert. He a ruptured bowel, severe injury to his anus, lung damage and broken ribs.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Charles Toutant |Colleen Murphy |Udi Ofer
Some public-interest lawyers are urging state officials to begin preparing now for a likely challenge to Donald Trump’s candidacy based on his involvement in the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
savvyherb.com | Udi Ofer
Newsweek · Sep 14, 2023 The majority of Americans now support marijuana legalization, seeing it as a waste of law enforcement resources and recognizing its medical benefits. Marijuana legalization is also seen as a matter of personal freedom and choice, as long as it does not harm others. Despite this public support, marijuana possession arrests continue to occur, with extreme racial disparities in enforcement.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
msn.com | Udi Ofer
In 1961, Harry J. Anslinger, America's first drug czar, published a explaining why 24 years earlier, he successfully pushed Congress to pass legislation effectively criminalizing marijuana. "A sixteen-year-old kills his entire family of five in Florida, a man in Minnesota puts a bullet through the head of a stranger on the road; in Colorado [a] husband tries to shoot his wife, kills her grandmother instead and then kills himself.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Charles Toutant |Colleen Murphy |Udi Ofer
The decision by the Election Law Enforcement Commission to dismiss 107 complaints of alleged campaign violations following the enactment of the Elections Transparency Act has drawn ire from some legislative members, including Sen. Steve Oroho, R-Sussex, and Sen. Anthony Bucco, R-Morris/Somerset, who said the new law “neutered” election transparency in the state.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Udi Ofer |Lauren Davis |David Gialanella |Gene Markin
Cannabis products advertised as “delta-8″ or “delta-9″ THC are able to be sold by convenience stores, gas stations, or beer and spirits stores that are not state-licensed dispensaries, even though THC is still federally illegal. The Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (the “Farm Bill”) removed hemp and hemp-derived products from the definition of “marihuana,” a prohibited schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
law.com | Udi Ofer
What do former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, five former members of Congress (two Republicans and three Democrats), the ACLU of New Jersey, the Brennan Center, the Cato Institute, the Rainey Center, and the Libertarian Party of New Jersey, along with a top Democratic election lawyer and a former Bush administration legal counsel all have in common? At first glance, one might say, nothing at all.
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Jun 8, 2023 | 
newsweek.com | Udi Ofer
Drug addiction is a chronic disease. It alters the way the brain works, stripping people of self-control and their ability to resist further drug consumption. Yet unlike responses to other diseases, in the United States, arrests and incarceration serve as the primary treatment for drug addiction. This approach has been a failure. It's time to treat drug addiction as a public health matter and not a criminal law one.
