JUNEAU – On Sunday, April 24, Alaska will celebrate the first annual Vic Fischer and Jack Coghill Constitution of the State of Alaska Day. April 24 recognizes that day in 1956 when the citizens of Alaska ratified the Constitution of the State of Alaska, “guaranteeing that the individual will always be in-charge” and enshrining our […]
(Juneau, AK) – The Second Amendment right to bear arms is important to millions of Americans and is fundamental to Alaskans. As such, the State of Alaska is supporting legal efforts that uphold robust Second Amendment rights. Alaska is prepared to challenge laws that infringe on those rights. This week, Alaska joined an amicus brief […]
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky informed colleagues in an email Saturday morning that he will vote to acquit Donald Trump on the charge of inciting a deadly insurrection, despite admitting less than two weeks after the January 6 assault that the former president “provoked” the right-wing mob. McConnell hid behind a procedural justification for his decision, […]
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump warned this week that he might use a never-before-invoked power under the U.S. Constitution to adjourn the Congress unless it took steps to confirm a number of his appointments. But lawmakers and legal scholars say the move is unlikely and not actually permissible in the way the president is trying to use it. “It’s a huge unprecedented power grab for the […]