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States Rights January 12, 2017

First state to approve conjugal visits prepares to end program, citing costs

Starting next month, prisoners in Mississippi will no longer be legally allowed to get busy behind bars.

States Rights January 12, 2017

Unions on edge as Arizona lawmakers weigh major expansion of education overhaul

Lawmakers in Arizona are poised to expand a controversial education program that allows parents to use state funds to pay for alternative schooling for their children -- a move teacher groups and unions say would decimate the public education system.

States Rights January 12, 2017

States push to regulate, tax booming e-cigarette industry

While waiting for the debate on electronic cigarettes to heat up on Capitol Hill, several state and local governments are pressing ahead with their own agendas for taxing and regulating the popular battery-powered smoking alternatives.

States Rights January 12, 2017

Dems push for minimum wage increase for tipped workers -- but will it backfire?

Hourly workers who rely on tips for a living are turning to the states in a bid to boost their base pay, as the minimum wage debate stalls in Congress -- though business groups warn the move could backfire.

States Rights January 12, 2017

Policing for Profit? Lawmakers, advocates raise alarm at growing gov’t power to seize property

Massachusetts motel owner Russell Caswell wasn’t expecting to find himself at the center of a national controversy when federal authorities came knocking on his door. They said they wanted his business –and the land it was on- and said they could take it legally if they wanted to through a practice known as civil forfeiture. Caswell said no.

States Rights January 12, 2017

States target meth labs with name-and-shame strategy

As states struggle to clamp down on a growing meth epidemic, they're turning to a tactic commonly used to target sex offenders: name and shame.

States Rights January 12, 2017

Inmates getting coverage under ObamaCare, as states shift cost to feds

The Obama administration often touts that people with pre-existing conditions and countless others can now get covered under ObamaCare. But there's another group that's starting to benefit from the law -- prison inmates.

States Rights January 12, 2017

Land grab? Local officials blast move by Obama to set aside 500,000 acres in NM

Local officials in New Mexico warn a move by the Obama administration to designate nearly a half-million acres as a national monument could open up a crime corridor making it easier for illegal immigrants to cross the border and for drug cartels to operate undetected.

States Rights January 12, 2017

Wisconsin becomes first state to restrict parents from giving up adopted kids

Wisconsin has become the first state in the nation to pass legislation cracking down on parents who try to give away their adopted kids.

States Rights January 12, 2017

Did Michigan just trigger 'constitutional convention'? Bid gains steam

Momentum is building behind what would be an unprecedented effort to amend the U.S. Constitution, through a little-known provision that gives states rather than Congress the power to initiate changes.

States Rights December 31, 2016

Federal officials ordered to help enforce Ariz., Kan., voter citizenship laws

Federal officials must help Kansas and Arizona enforce laws requiring new voters to document their U.S. citizenship, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, in a decision that could encourage other Republican-led states to consider similar policies.