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On August 8, 2023, Associate Justice John F. Coffee, in the Lowell District Court of Massachusetts, wrote an opinion that found the charge of carrying a firearm without a license is unconstitutional on its face when applied to non-residents. The opinion was based on the Supreme Court decision of Bruen. The case involves a New Hampshire resident, Dean Donnell, who was charged with carrying a firearm without a license in Massachusetts. Donnell could legally carry a firearm in his home state. The court held the right to carry outside the home was at issue, and the conduct in this case...

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that Georgia voter data shows over 4,700 absentee voters in the presidential election listed non-residential addresses as their places of residence. Georgia law requires citizens registering to vote to reside “in that place in which such person’s habitation is fixed …” Judicial Watch yesterday shared its data with the Georgia Secretary of State and requested an investigation.In total, 9,989 Georgia voters seem to be registered at non-residential addresses: 1,882 at commercial addresses, 1,336 registered at county and state governmental buildings, and 6,735 at either hotels or motels.Additionally, 215 new registrations (between November 4-December 14)...

Cobb Board of Elections Denies Challenges To Voter Rolls MARIETTA, GA — The Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration unanimously voted to deny a hearing on three separate challenges aimed at disqualifying thousands of Cobb County voters ahead of the Jan. 5 Senate runoff election. The board called a special meeting to hear the three challenges — one from Cobb County GOP Chairman Jason Shepherd, and two from Pamela Reardon, a Cobb County real estate agent — and determine if there was probable cause for a full hearing. Jason Shepherd told the board that he found evidence of...

New York City’s Department of Investigation (DOI) has just shown how easy it is to commit voter fraud that is almost undetectable. Its undercover agents were able to obtain ballots for city elections a total of 61 times — 39 times using the names of dead people, 14 times using the names of incarcerated felons, and eight times using the names of non-residents. On only two occasions, or about 3 percent of the time, were the agents stopped by polling-place officials. In one of the two cases, an investigator was stopped only because the felon he was trying to vote...

NEW YORK — November 2 is not here yet, but polling problems have begun. From possibly malfunctioning ballot gear to potential fraud, the 2010 mid-term vote is marred even before Election Day has dawned. •Like jurors who deliberate before a trial concludes, some Nevadans who have tried voting early for Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle instead have seen Democrat Harry Reid’s name appear on their electronic voting machines. Some voters have complained about this apparent glitch, but how many others unwittingly have miscast their ballots? Intriguingly, these machines are maintained in Las Vegas by members of the Service Employees International...

NEW DELHI: Will the Indian Citizenship (Amendment Act) 2003 allow NRIs (Non-Resident Indians) dual citizenship? If so, what will it entail and what will it mean to the NRIs? In America alone, there are just under 1.9 million Indian Americans, according to the 2000 US Census. And if they go by the American principles of citizenship, they could end up asking so many things. The progressive policies and equality of opportunity have allowed Indians to travel to the US and establish successful careers. What is uppermost in the minds of NRIs now is - Should India emulate America and attract...

Canada is in violation of the NAFTA treaty.  Per Chapter 11, Article 1102 of NAFTA, each signatory nation of the NAFTA treaty must offer an equal or preferable investment playing field to the investors of all other signatory nations (see below). Evidence of direct violations of this NAFTA requirement is provided below from CBS Marketwatch, though they don't catch the violations themselves.These violations of NAFTA are due to Canadian law that currently mandates that Canada's mutual fund trusts must be run for predominantly Canadian, rather than U.S. or Mexican, shareholders. Economic penalties for failing to comply with this Canadian law, or with...