Applying a 4 percent surtax to million-dollar incomes and dropping a required reference to God from the state's oath of office are among proposed changes to the Massachusetts Constitution that could be coming before state lawmakers before summer.
Legislators will also be asked to send a proposal to allow no-excuse-needed absentee voting, as opposed to the technically limited reasons voters can offer now to justify for voting without showing up at the polls on election day.
Jeff Sessions' recent April 24 visit to Amherst College led a protester to set off a "stink bomb" in the college's revered Johnson Chapel where the former US attorney general was giving a talk on free speech. Moments later, in a scripted protest, "about 70 students" stood up and left the assembly, some shouting as others waved a gay pride rainbow flag.
The rainbow flag is esteemed by progressives as a symbol of tolerance, and unity in diversity.
