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Stop and identify statutes. "Stop and identify" statutes are laws in several U.S. states that authorize police [ 1] to lawfully order people whom they reasonably suspect of committing a crime to state their name. If there is not reasonable suspicion that a person has committed a crime, is committing a crime, or is about to commit a crime, the ...
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday reinstated an agency rule prohibiting residents from using “X” instead of male or female on state-issued driver’s licenses or identification cards. In a ...
The Twenty-fourth Amendment ( Amendment XXIV) to the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964.
The surge of felony disenfranchisement laws after the Civil War led many to conclude that the laws were implemented as part of a strategy to disenfranchise blacks, especially as the policy was expanded in conjunction with the Black Codes, which established severe penalties for petty crimes and especially targeted black Americans. [14]
Every driver in Arkansas must carry a minimum amount of car insurance in order to legally operate their vehicle. The minimum requirement in Arkansas is a 25/50/25 insurance policy, which is the ...
Wilson v. Arkansas, 514 U.S. 927 (1995), is a United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court held that the traditional, common-law-derived "knock and announce" rule for executing search warrants must be incorporated into the "reasonableness" analysis of whether the actual execution of the warrant is/was justified under the 4th Amendment.
As of March 2024, Arkansas no longer permits non-binary (X) gender markers on driver's licenses or state identification cards. The state established this through an "emergency rule." The state governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said in a news release of the rule: "As long as I’m governor, Arkansas state government will not endorse nonsense." [204]
A federal judge has ruled Arkansas cannot prevent two high school teachers from discussing critical race theory in the classroom, but he stopped short of more broadly blocking the state from ...