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Statement: Gov.’s veto of SB 128 rejects bipartisan solution that would have helped landlords and kept Oklahomans in their homes

May 6, 2025 // Updated: May 6, 2025

Gov. Stitt's veto of Senate Bill 128 is more than a missed opportunity — it's a step backward for housing stability in Oklahoma. This bipartisan bill would have added just five days to the eviction trial timeline and increased the notice period from three to seven days. Five days could mean the difference between a family staying housed or landing in a shelter.

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Supreme Court, Oklahoma lawmakers weigh church-state boundaries (Capitol Update)

May 5, 2025 // Updated: May 5, 2025

While the legislature was plowing its way through multiple bills toward this week’s deadline for floor passage of bills originating in the opposite chamber, issues of private religious faith in the public sector worked their way toward a conclusion. It has been a cardinal rule that public funding of private schools is prohibited by the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment. 

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Silence in the face of injustice puts each of us at risk (Commentary)

// Updated: May 5, 2025

The federal government took less than 100 days after President Trump’s inauguration to mount an unprecedented and wholesale attack on immigrant families in America, regardless of their immigration status or criminal history. The Trump administration is destroying lawful pathways into the country, detaining people with no criminal background using “collateral arrests,” suddenly enforcing rarely implemented,

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