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The alternatives to cash bail include: Release without bail: Sometimes known as "release on recognizance" (ROR). The defendant is released with a pledge to appear in court and to not interfere with the judicial process. The only incentive they have to appear in court is the fact that failing to appear would be a criminal offense.
Police abolition is a process that requires communities to create alternatives to policing, such as Mobile Crisis Teams and Community accountability. This process involves the deconstruction of the preconceived understandings of policing and resisting co-option by reformists.
In May 2013, Boy Scouts of America (BSA) voted to change its membership policy to allow youth of any sexual orientation. [8] Following the vote, John Stemberger changed the mission of OnMyHonor.net to start a new alternative Scouting program to be the premier national character development organization for young men which "produces godly and responsible husbands, fathers, and citizens". [10]
The only other alternative would be to initiate a "catastrophic recession," Rapidan Energy Group president Bob McNally told Bloomberg TV. "At $1.50 a gallon, US shale oil, i.e., energy dominance ...
The four faithless electors from Washington were each fined $1,000 for breaking their pledge. [64] Three of the electors appealed the fines, which were upheld by the Washington Supreme Court in May 2019 by an 8–1 vote.
(The Center Square) – Border-focused Republicans are eagerly awaiting the next Trump administration, and with it, the return of Remain in Mexico, an immigration policy that makes migrants who ...
An alternative theory is that the pledge was submitted to an 1890 patriotic competition in The Youth's Companion by a 13-year-old Kansas schoolboy, coincidentally named Frank E. Bellamy. A May 1892 newspaper from Hays, Kansas reported on an April 30 school flag-raising that was accompanied by an almost identical pledge.
The Confederate oath was occasionally sworn by civilians whose loyalty was considered dubious and who were thus required to make a pledge attesting to their loyalty. [8] Texas governor Sam Houston refused to take the Confederate oath and was removed from office. [9]