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Administration officials said the decision was necessary to ensure that all funding complies with Trump’s executive orders, which are intended to undo progressive steps on transgender rights, environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, efforts.
House Bill 1032, authored by Rep. Craig Haggard, R-Mooresville, would double down on restrictions already in effect for investors located in China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela — all countries currently labeled as foreign adversaries in state and federal code.
Some worry the measure will discourage college students from voting and add additional duties to local county voter registration offices.
The measure includes a provision to allow Marion County residents to vote, through a referendum, for property-tax hikes that would be used to pay for road improvements.
The abrupt termination targeting career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s team is consistent with the administration’s determination to purge the government of workers it perceives as disloyal to the president.
The president also ordered troops to be reinstated who had left voluntarily or been booted for refusing COVID-19 vaccines and outlined new rollbacks in diversity programs.
A new Indianapolis immigration court officially opened on Monday, the first of its kind to operate in Indiana.
Indianapolis-based Exodus Refugee Immigration Inc. has begun asking for private donations and support, following a flurry of immigration-related changes President Donald Trump made last week through a series of executive orders.
Indiana Supreme Court
Charles Jennings v. Jessica A. Smiley and Progressive Southeastern Insurance Co.
24S-CT-186
Civil tort. Appeal from the Hamilton Superior Court. Affirms the trial court’s denial of Charles Jennings’ motion to compel. Finds that, because Jennings failed to meet his burden of showing how any benefit of producing Jessica Smiley’s iPhone for inspection outweighed Smiley’s privacy interest, the trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying Jennings’ motion to compel. Also finds Jennings’ request was overbroad and would produce duplicative evidence in part. Justice Derek Molter dissents with a separate opinion. Attorneys for appellant: Bryan Babb, Bradley Dick, Jonathan Hughes. Attorneys for appellees: Robert Durham, Matthew Trainor, Edward Kohan, Trevor Brown, James Hehner, Matthew Hobson, Benjamin Katchur.
A key ally of President Donald Trump said the White House pardoning rioters who fought with police while storming the U.S. Capitol in 2021 is “sending the wrong signal” and expressed concern about the future ramifications of issuing sweeping clemencies.
As part of an ongoing effort to eradicate “obscene” and “harmful” books or curricular material from Indiana schools, a new bill floated by Republican lawmakers seeks to expand that ban to include “pornographic” content, too.
Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create new religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish state-level vaccine injury databases or dictate what providers must tell patients about the shots.
Top Trump administration officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan and the acting deputy attorney general, visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of ramped-up immigration enforcement in the nation’s third-largest city as federal agencies touted arrests around the country.
The police department said it regularly communicates with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and fully complies with all state and federal laws.
A long-awaited federal immigration court is poised to open next week in Indianapolis, making it the first court of its kind to operate in the state.
An Anderson man was sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being in possession of a firearm during a drunk driving crash.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Madison N. Thomas v. State of Indiana
24A-CR-1243
Criminal. Affirms Allen Superior Court Judge Frances Gull’s sentence of Madison Thomas to one-and-a-half years in prison after Thomas pleaded guilty to three counts of Level 6 felony drug possession, divided between two cases. Finds the trial court revoked her bond when she violated the terms of her pretrial release and Thomas then violated the terms of the drug court program, for which she was sanctioned with jail time, before being removed from the program for a second violation. Also finds Thomas has failed to demonstrate this is one of the exceptional cases in which the appellate court should exercise its power to revise sentences. Attorney for appellant: Donald Frew. Attorneys for appellee: Attorney General Todd Rokita, Deputy Attorney General Sierra Murray, Certified Legal Intern Maya Stirm.
The measure would require local law enforcement to give federal authorities notice when they arrest people who are reasonably believed to be in the country illegally.
A bill prohibiting some Hoosier minors from using social media without their parents’ permission received bipartisan support in the Indiana Senate on Thursday and moved to the House for further consideration.
Legislators voted to advance five health care-related bills, including measures banning non-compete agreements for physicians and placing limits on prior authorization.