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Whitehouse Statement on Oral Arguments in Major Challenge to Abortion

Senate Courts Subcommittee Chairman: Dobbs case “aims a torpedo at the core of Roe, Casey, and nearly fifty years of precedent” Washington, DC – Today, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, released the following statement on oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a direct challenge […]Read More

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Providence man sentenced to serve 6 ½ years in state

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that a Providence man was sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to serve six and a half years at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) stemming from his 2020 arrest, following a vehicle stop in Central Falls, for illegally possessing a pistol. Cashmier Fields (age 32) entered […]Read More