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A Black, non-binary Democratic state legislator in the Oklahoma House was formally censured by the Re
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Chris Kartsounes had heard enough of Outagamie County Circuit Judge Vincent Biskupics demands. In May 2017, at his sixth hearing after having already been sentenced 鈥?when a case would
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