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Education
School choice big winner in Oklahoma primary elections
School choice played a prominent role in several state legislative races across Oklahoma this month.Ray Carter | June 24, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Oklahoma Supreme Court gets it right, still blunders
The Oklahoma Supreme Court’s decision to vacate a restraining order against a street preacher, while not perfect, is good news for those who speak their mind—especially online.Ryan Haynie | June 14, 2024
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Law & Principles
Drummond criticizes bar association
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond and 20 other state attorneys general say the standards imposed by the American Bar Association (ABA) for accreditation of law schools violate constitutional prohibitions on discrimination and should be junked.Ray Carter | June 11, 2024
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Higher Education
OU should end race-based discrimination
“The University of Oklahoma determines how much financial aid it gives to students based on their race,” a new lawsuit alleges. “That is unlawful.”Jonathan Small | June 3, 2024
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Law & Principles
Oklahoma legislative session ends with few major accomplishments
State lawmakers passed some culturally conservative measures this year. But they left a Democratic group in charge of judicial selection and shelved tax cuts in favor of massive government-spending hikes.Ray Carter | May 31, 2024
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Education, Culture & the Family
Bill allowing Bible classes during school sent to governor
Legislation that provides a framework for schools to allow students to take religious or moral instruction from an outside provider during the school day has cleared its final legislative hurdle.Ray Carter | May 29, 2024
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Education
HB 1425 could improve student attendance, moral training
If HB 1425’s only benefit is to improve student attendance, it will be a success. And if the moral instruction students access because of the law impacts their outlook and lives in broader ways, that’s even better.Jonathan Small | May 21, 2024
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Criminal Justice
Child rapist who spurred McGirt decision set to go free
Oklahoma has “a two-tiered system of justice now, depending on your race.”Jonathan Small | May 20, 2024
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Higher Education
OU sued for racist scholarship practices
A class-action lawsuit filed in federal court says OU’s race-based financial-aid practices are unlawful.Ray Carter | May 16, 2024
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Education
School Bible classes linked to better attendance
A bill awaiting a vote in the Oklahoma House of Representatives would allow students to be excused for offsite Bible study. Proponents say this could impact students’ moral foundations and also boost school attendance.Ray Carter | May 13, 2024
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Criminal Justice
With child rapist set to walk free, Stitt warns of ‘two-tiered’ justice system in Oklahoma
The child rapist whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court effectively re-establishing Indian reservations across eastern Oklahoma is set to walk out of prison a free man, something that would have never happened if his original trial as an Oklahoman in state court had been allowed to stand.Ray Carter | May 3, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Ten Commandments case highlights Oklahoma’s judicial incoherence
Some say the unelected and unaccountable Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC)—which chooses, in secret, all major Oklahoma judicial nominees—works just fine. Unfortunately, there is much evidence to the contrary.Jonathan Small | April 29, 2024
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Judicial Reform
OCPA Announces Oklahoma Judicial Scorecard
The Oklahoma Judicial Scorecard will look at rulings by justices on the Oklahoma Supreme Court.Staff | April 22, 2024
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Judicial Reform
JNC process lacks transparency
A flier recently distributed at the Oklahoma Capitol tries, desperately, to convince lawmakers that Oklahoma’s secretive Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC) should be preserved and that Oklahomans will somehow be worse off if we instead adopt the judicial-selection process developed by our nation’s Founding Fathers. But the flier doesn’t pass the laugh test.Staff | April 17, 2024
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Judicial Reform
60 percent of JNC members are not Republicans
In a state where a majority of voters are Republicans, only 40% of JNC members are Republicans.Jonathan Small | April 15, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Judicial Nominating Commission structure hides partisan tilt
Defenders claim the JNC is “nonpartisan.” But the membership requirements of the group have granted Democratic partisans outsized influence in selecting Oklahoma judges.Ray Carter | April 15, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Group that selects Oklahoma judges loves Cuba?
The Oklahoma Bar Association offered its attorneys continuing legal education (CLE) credit for vacationing in a totalitarian communist country that flouts the rule of law.Ray Carter | April 11, 2024
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Education, Culture & the Family
Bible class ‘released time’ a good idea for Oklahoma
Let’s allow Oklahoma students to be excused from school to attend a course in religious instruction.Tom Newell | April 9, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Judicial-nomination transparency bill clears committee
Legislation that would end the closed-door, secretive process currently used to select Oklahoma judges has received strong support from a House committee.Ray Carter | April 9, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Another dubious Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling points up the need for reform
The court’s threadbare ruling on the minimum-wage issue highlights, once again, the importance of overhauling the judicial-selection process in Oklahoma. We need a system that produces judges whose rulings and opinions are grounded in law, not random political whims.Jonathan Small | April 1, 2024