Last night, the Senate approved our criminal justice reform package by a vote of 27-10 – a major milestone in an effort that goes back over 20 years for me.
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Survey of states regarding statutory rape
An intern in my office, Aja Watkins has completed a survey of age exemptions in other states.
Inventory of Senate Ways and Means Changes to Criminal Justice Reform Bill
The Senate Ways and Means version of the criminal justice reform bill includes a number of improvements, both technical and substantive. Here are the most important substantive changes.
2nd Amendment
I know you supported this bill but you and your colleagues have just opened Pandora’s Box for anti -gun lobbyists to plow through. By backing this bill which took 4 days to pass your are setting a precedence for the anti-gun lobbyists. Las Vegas was horrible but no one knows what happened yet. But seizing …
More Needless BS
The States should get out of the business of trying to regulate guns. It should be handled at the Federal level. It should apply evenly across all 50 states. What happen if you had to have a license to speak and that license was only good in certain states. All hell would break loose. I …
Bump Stock Ban
The Massachusetts legislature is taking swift action to ban the devices that the Las Vegas shooter used to slaughter innocent concert-goers with a hail of bullets.