Guest AuthorSeptember 30, 2020
4min1664
Amendment 6 helps fulfill the promise “to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan.”
Amendment 6
Guest AuthorSeptember 30, 2020
Scott PowersOctober 30, 2018
4min294
The group pushing to have crime victims’ rights detailed in the Florida Constitution through the Amendment 6 proposal is launching another round of four TV commercials featuring stories of crime victims and State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle of Miami-Dade County. In one of the commercials, Laura DeHarde, an abuse victim from Coral Springs, explains how […]
Ryan NicolOctober 23, 2018
8min573
Former Miami Heat player Shane Battier, state Sen. Lauren Book, and other high-profile supporters of Amendment 6 were on hand Monday evening to highlight an Early Voting event and help advocate for passage of Florida’s own “Marsy’s Law.” Amendment 6 would establish a so-called “bill of rights” for crime victims. The measure was modeled after California’s […]
Scott PowersOctober 16, 2018
4min371
Two new television commercials are being launched Tuesday telling the stories of a rape victim and the mother of a murder victim, who explain how helpless they’ve felt in pursuing justice and why they want Florida voters to adopt Amendment 6. The commercials are part of the $30 million campaign being run by Marsy’s Law […]
Guest AuthorOctober 8, 2018
6min690
Our founder, Dr. Martin Luther King, famously said: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Dr. King made it his life’s mission to shine a bright light on the injustices he saw in this world and called for us all to work together to make right what is wrong. Since his time on this […]
Scott PowersOctober 3, 2018
8min372
Backers of Amendment 6 are releasing three internet videos Wednesday showing a crime victim, a family member, and a prosecutor each calling for victims rights spelled out in the “Marsy’s Law” amendment on the statewide ballot on Nov. 6. The 30-second videos feature Agnes Furey of Tallahassee, whose daughter and grandson were murdered, talking about […]
Scott PowersSeptember 27, 2018
7min365
A new television commercial is being launched Thursday portraying the terror and frustration of an apparent domestic violence victim, as part of the “Marsy’s Law” campaign to enshrine a new bill of rights for crime victims into the Florida Constitution through Amendment 6 on the Nov. 6 ballot. The new 30-second commercial, “You Don’t Have […]
Michael MolineAugust 31, 2018
6min311
Ballot language for the Constitution Revision Commission’s proposed Amendment 6 disguises its curtailment of defendants’ rights with a promise to create procedural protections for crime victims, opponents argued in written arguments submitted Friday. In their answer to arguments the state submitted to the Florida Supreme Court the day before, the League of Women Voters and two private citizens attempted to refute […]
Michael MolineAugust 31, 2018
6min271
The state government’s written arguments in the Florida Supreme Court test of the Constitution Revision Commission’s Amendment 6 victim’s rights proposal emphasize the “sanctified” nature of the amendment process. They also underscore that the amendment process counts on voters to be reasonably well-informed about our constitutional system — especially given the strict word limits on […]
Michael MolineAugust 31, 2018
6min207
Proponents of the Constitution Revision Commission’s victims’ rights proposal have filed the first written arguments in a Florida Supreme Court case testing whether the ballot language would mislead the voters. The brief appeared shortly after the high court accepted a request by the Criminal Law Section of the Florida Bar to file a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the proposed […]