Maryland’s Senate on Thursday took a major step toward making “personal use” amounts of marijuana legal beginning in 2023. Lawmakers gave approval to two…
Opinion: Expansion of Good Samaritan Law Smashes the Balance Between Public Health and Public Safety
A law with blanket immunity for all misdemeanor crimes is a move that makes Marylanders less safe and promises no decrease in overdose deaths.
The Senate Finance Committee approved a measure Tuesday that would add Maryland to the growing list of states that have legalized small amounts of…
A Baltimore activist is disappointed that some of the city’s leaders are resistant to substantive community oversight of police.
Overdoses turn into deaths when bystanders are too intimidated to call police because they might be sent to jail themselves. Good Samaritan laws are full of loopholes. That sends the message: calling 911 to save a life could cost you.
A judge blocked Maryland’s new congressional map Friday, finding that the plan violates the Maryland Constitution and Declaration of Rights — and unfairly favors Democrats. She ordered lawmakers to come up with a new plan by nextWednesday.
With 18 days left in the 2022 legislative session, Republicans railed against Democratic lawmakers on Thursday for not taking more aggressive legislative action against violent crime
A blog post from the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland has widened a growing rift between the organization and Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Chair William C. Smith Jr.
With redistricting lawsuits pending in the Maryland Court of Appeals, the future of Chief Judge Joseph M. Getty is the object of much speculation.
Systemic racism in both the legal system and immigration system puts Black immigrants at particular risk of ICE detention and deportation.