Trump & the Mass. ballot: Trump is off the ballot in Maine and may removed in Colorado. Could it happen here? "What we're doing here, this is not political. This is legal," says attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan, who is working to get Trump off the ballot in the Bay State. "We are trying to enforce our laws. The Constitution is the highest law of our land." https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-01-08/attorneys-push-to-remove-trump-from-massachusetts-primary-ballot #Election2024

US 2023 murder rates are down by -13% and every major category of crime except auto theft has declined, violent crime falling to one of the lowest rates in >50 years and property crime falling to its lowest level since the 1960s. Also, the country's prison population is now 25% lower than its peak in 2009, and a majority of states have reduced their prison populations by more than that, including New Jersey and New York who have reduced prison populations by more than half in the last decade.