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Democrats probe DOJ finding that eases way for states to institutionalize mentally ill

Senate and House Democrats launched a congressional inquiry on Wednesday into a new controversial Justice Department legal opinion that would make it easier for states to keep people with mental illness institutionalized, rather than paying for them to receive community-based care. In a letter to Acting Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the lawmakers asked the…

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Supreme Court will review Alaska’s bid to seize pilot’s plane over 6-pack of beer: “This case isn’t just about me”

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review an Alaska bush pilot’s claims that state authorities have tried to illegally seize his $95,000 airplane after a passenger brought a six-pack of beer on a flight bound for a dry village. The pilot, Kenneth Jouppi, sued to block his plane’s seizure after he was convicted of an…

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