...an ethics reform package that removes ethics investigations from legislators.The bill sent Tuesday to the full Judiciary Committee overhauls the makeup of the state Ethics Commission board and puts it in charge of investigating possible ethics...

...botched shooting at a Charleston school drew attention to a loophole in reporting.The measure heading to the Judiciary Committee ensures the names of those determined mentally insane by a South Carolina court are put into a federal database...

...stopped the execution of Warren Hill, a man with a 70 IQ who's been convicted of two separate killings.House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rich Golick announced that day that he would seek a special committee to study the burden of proof.Word...

...victims have died.The measure, by Rep. Wendell Willard, R-Sandy Springs, has been approved by the House Judiciary Committee he chairs and is awaiting a vote by the whole House Tuesday or Thursday.It's indicative of the new heft older...

...killed 32 people and himself in the nation's worst mass shooting.That measure never made it out of the House Judiciary Committee, the same panel that will consider Lowe's new proposal.Lowe is a National Rifle Association member and said...

...Senate floor.The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill 19-1 Tuesday...take up the bill next week. Judiciary Committee Chairman Larry Martin expects...on the Senate floor.The Judiciary Committee also approved a bill that...

...Finance Committee, a week after the chamber's Judiciary Committee advanced it to the floor. And senators set Feb...long, and patience can be a virtue. The Senate Judiciary Committee produced a strong bill, and we will soon know...

...agency heads about next year's budget, and the Judiciary Committee begins consideration of the juvenile-justice...Thursday.A subcommittee of a different House Judiciary committee holds a hearing Tuesday morning on racial profiling...

...programs that treat root causes of criminal behavior rather than putting the youths behind bars.The Georgia House Judiciary Committee made several dozen changes to the details of the bill Tuesday but didn't alter a general outline that tracks the...

...councilman who served 16 years in the state House until 2007.At the Capitol, Bordeaux was chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, a job that made him an expert on criminal law and courts. But when it came to issues important to his home city...