Florida Gov. Rick Scott, referring to a controversial election law that he signed in 2011, which led to fewer early voting days and long lines during last year's elections.
Federal Judge Ilana Rovner, a Republican appointee, in her ruling last week against the Trump administration's attempt to withhold funding from "sanctuary cities" that do not comply with all federal immigration enforcement.
Sherleen Pike, who lives about a half-mile from the railroad track in Parrish, Ala., where a train carrying human waste from New York City has been parked for two months, waiting to be brought to a nearby landfill. The federal government bans New York from dumping its excrement in the ocean.
Charlotte, N.C, City Councilmember LaWana Mayfield, in a Facebook post sharing an article from Awarenessact.com titled "European Scientific Journal Concludes 9/11 Was A Controlled Demolition." Her comments have sparked a nationwide backlash and led to calls for her resignation.
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, when asked about teachers leaving school to protest at the statehouse. He has since apologized after lawmakers from both parties condemned his comments.
Erica Atwood, former executive director of the Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission, after two black men were arrested for refusing to leave a Starbucks where they were waiting to meet a friend. The incident attracted national attention and set off protests outside the store.
Sheriff Donny Youngblood of Kern County, Calif., caught on a recently released 2006 tape talking to a union of jail employees. In 2015, The Guardian found that the county had the nation's highest per capita rate of killings by police officers. He is up for reelection this year.