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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

Who Said That
I have a client who's facing life in prison for allegedly shipping marijuana to Missouri, yet California inmates can have it in their prison cells. It's insane.
Attorney Dan Horowitz, after an appeals court in California ruled that prisoners can legally possess -- just not consume -- marijuana. That, however, doesn't stop prisons from setting rules that ban possession.
June 13, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
1 in 10
Tenants who comes to court with an attorney. Landlords, meanwhile, almost always have legal representation.
June 12, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Some of these rich-guy politicians missed that memo. They think that writing the check is all that matters. That helps you win the election. It doesn’t help you with governing.
Brigid Harrison, a political scientist and law professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where a feud between Phil Murphy, the Goldman Sachs executive-turned-governor, and legislative leaders in his own party has stunted legislative progress.
June 12, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
What's more inhumane than molesting a small, infant child?
Alabama Republican state Rep. Steve Hurst, who introduced a bill just signed into law that makes "chemical castration" a parole requirement for sex offenders whose victims are younger than 13. Critics believe that violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
June 11, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
June 21
Deadline that a judge gave Missouri to officially deny or grant a license renewal for the state's only abortion clinic.
June 11, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
17,000
People who are being kicked off Medicaid in Georgia because, according to the state, they did not respond to renewal notices. Patients say they never received them; their lawyers say there's evidence that they were never sent.
June 10, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
We unequivocally condemn...Rep. Hill’s laughter and refusal to push back and remind his audience that this is America and we don’t stone people to death we disagree with. Such callous indifference...in no way reflects...the Republican caucus.
Statement from the Florida GOP House Speaker José Oliva and Rules Chair Chris Sprowls, calling on state Rep. Mike Hill to apologize for his reaction to a constituent’s recommendation to introduce legislation that would legalize the execution of gay people.
June 10, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Providing flowers for a wedding between Muslims would not necessarily constitute an endorsement of Islam, nor would providing flowers for an atheist couple endorse atheism.
Unanimous ruling from the Washington state Supreme Court against a florist who refused service to a same-sex couple. The court ruled that selling floral arrangements is not speech and thus not protected by the First Amendment.
June 07, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
46
Ice cream trucks that New York City seized last week for repeatedly violating traffic laws and not paying fines.
June 07, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Memorial in front of police tape and building with parking lot.
Archive
Are Public Employees Safe at Work?
Whether it's violence like the Virginia Beach shooting at a municipal building, or danger due to the nature of the job, government workers lack health and safety protections in nearly half the states.
June 06, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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