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Senator Toews asks to print resolution to expand state tort claims to cover free speech and religion
Summary
Senator Ben Toews asked the Judiciary and Rules Committee to print RS32481, a draft resolution to expand the state tort-claims framework to include claims for violations of freedom of speech and freedom of religion, enabling state-court remedies.
Senator Ben Toews introduced RS32481 in the Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee as a request to print a resolution intended to expand the Tort Claims Act to provide a state-court remedy for alleged violations of freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
"What this does is it expands the Tort Claims Act to include freedom of speech and freedom of religion," Toews said. He described the change as giving people…
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