Massachusetts Democrats are at the forefront of the demand to deny Second Amendment rights to anyone placed (erroneously or not) on a terror watch list, including the No Fly List. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Reps. Seth Moulton and Katherine Clark, and State Representative Lori Ehrlich are among those demanding that anyone whose name appears on such lists be denied access to guns.
"The FBI should have the authority to block gun sales to anyone they believe is a terrorist," Warren said on the Senate floor, apparently forgetting everything she ever learned about due process in law school. Note the absence of any sort of judicial review posited by the former Harvard Law professor.
WASHINGTON – Massachusetts could get up to $20 million in federal aid to help fight the opioid epidemic here, while New Hampshire, where the drug overdose epidemic is arguably worse, may receive $5 million, under a proposal from President Barack Obama pending in Congress.
Obama's estimated funding for state opioid treatment programs, released earlier this week, totals $1.1 billion spread over two years, starting in October. But Republican congressional leaders have deferred action on the funding proposal until later this year. Still, a Senate committee has approved $261 million to combat opioid abuse in fiscal 2017, or almost twice as much as was dedicated to the battle previously, according to Cleveland.com.
