BOSTON — With House lawmakers poised to vote Wednesday on whether to approve a new pay package that could net public officials big bumps in salary, Speaker Robert DeLeo (D-Winthrop) told reporters Tuesday that the proposal is "not anything new."
"This wasn't myself just thinking during the Christmas holiday that this would be a good thing to do," DeLeo said during a media availability held immediately House Democrats finished a closed-door caucus. "This is something I've been hearing about for years from constitutional officers, I've been hearing from House members, Senate members — an awful lot of, you know, folks."
BOSTON — The state's leading pro-Second Amendment organization has upped the ante in its gun rights showdown with Attorney General Maura Healey, this time suing her and Governor Charlie Baker in federal court over the state's assault weapons ban.
The Gun Owners' Action League of Massachusetts has already turned to the state's top public records enforcement officer, Secretary of State William Galvin, in an effort to force Healey to turn over documents and records related to her July directive banning so-called "copycat" assault weapons. Their latest civil action, filed Monday, looks to convince a federal judge to deem the state Legislature's 1998 assault weapons ban as unconstitutional.
