HB 2772 Crime of domestic terrorism

Posted on February 5, 2023 by dbleiler | 0 Comments

This bill creates crime of domestic terrorism in the first degree. Punishes by maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both. Creates crime of domestic terrorism in the second degree. Punishes by maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to classify crimes as specified crime categories of sentencing guidelines grid. This…

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U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon introduces bill to protect domestic violence survivors from gun violence

Posted on July 2, 2021 by BJ | 0 Comments

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D) has joined with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., to introduce a bill intended to protect domestic violence survivors from gun violence. The bill is partly named after Nicolette Elias, a 46-year-old Portland woman fatally shot by her ex- husband Ian Martin Elias in her Southwest Portland home in 2014. A court had granted her restraining orders…

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DONOR PRIVACY RULING DEFENDS AGAINST OREGON POLITICAL HARASSMENT

Posted on July 2, 2021 by BJ | 0 Comments

Donor privacy began during the 1950s when government tried to force the NAACP to disclose its donors so they could be harassed.   The US Supreme Court defended them then, and the US Supreme Court defends them again today in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta.  The NAACP along with other liberal liberal and conservative groups (ACLU, PBS Reno, CATO, US Chamber, etc.)…

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