Jamie Lucke

KY's most powerful legislator is proposing a constitutional amendment... to change the way KY votes on constitutional amendments. SB 262 from Robert Stivers would allow summaries of amendments to make the ballot instead of the full text. kentucky.com/news/politics-…

RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war? RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!

Louisville AD Josh Heird thinks Michigan case has created an opening to get school’s vacated 2013 NCAA title restored. “I think the Michigan case is the first case where we can really point to the precedent and say we’ve been treated unfairly.” kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/29/in-…

New: The appearance of a double standard and more “reasonable” NCAA leadership give AD Josh Heird hope Louisville might get its vacated 2013 basketball title restored. kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/29/in-…

Update: NCAA declines to comment on Louisville’s effort to restore vacated 2013 basketball title, citing policy on pending (and, presumably, potential) appeals. kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/29/in-…

@_AustinHorn Scoop!

I like how the anonymous sources here are relaying the same quotes he's been saying publicly for the last several months. axios.com/2025/08/13/bes…

Working is no guarantee you’ll have health insurance. Just ask Kentucky legislators. • Kentucky Lantern kentuckylantern.com/2025/07/23/wor…

The Ohio House’s version of the budget would eliminate the independent group charged with enforcing state campaign finance laws. Lawmakers slipped the provision into the 5,000-plus page bill as part of a wide-ranging amendment the day before the vote buff.ly/IF8KuxB

“These across-the-board and on-again, off-again tariffs throw the economy into chaos and uncertainty and cut off the opportunity for trade relationships that are mutually beneficial and that, with good policy, can create better jobs both here and abroad.” kentuckylantern.com/2025/04/17/as-…

Who’s next? nytimes.com/2025/04/15/wor… via @NYTimes

A new policy requiring all contracts over $100,000 to be personally approved by the commerce secretary has disrupted operations at many NOAA facilities. “It’s making our work unsafe,” one researcher said. propublica.org/article/noaa-c…

In mid-March, ICE started detaining immigrants in tent camps in the U.S. for the first time, built by a company once known for operating music festival facilities that is poised to make a fortune on Trump's deportation plans. propublica.org/article/trump-…

NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. propublica.org/article/noaa-c…

The most badass heroic utility co. in the country is the Frankfort Plant Board. They have worked non stop and risked their lives to keep our lights on and water clean. They even repaired a water line over the river yesterday. And now they’ve found a way to turn the plant back on!

I believe America is nearing a constitutional crisis, and Republicans in Congress are duty bound to make sure we don't experience one, even -- especially -- when our party holds the presidency. courier-journal.com/story/opinion/…

JD Vance holds a JD from Yale Law (and so do I). Presumably, he knows that he is disregarding the law here, and being deceptive about the protections it affords. Non-citizens physically present in the United States, regardless of their immigration status, are entitled to due process protections under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. It is not relevant whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is sympathetic, or how much you believe an (apparently shaky) claim from an informant that he had gang connections. The disposition of this case, based on a judge’s review of the facts, was to grant Abrego Garcia protected legal status, preventing his deportation. Abrego Garcia‘s due process rights, under the law, required the government to go back to immigration court and make the case, if they wanted to terminate that protected status. There is no good faith legal reading in which his right to due process was respected; indeed, the government has conceded that it erred, and is essentially arguing that it doesn’t matter enough to address it. This is because they assume people will not care. But everyone in the United States should care—we all depend on these basic legal rights being predictably upheld.

ICYMI: The Trump administration fired the chair of the @TVAnews board, stripping the governing body of the nation's largest public power provider — which serves parts of Western KY — of its ability to conduct business with only four members left. knoxnews.com/story/news/pol… @knoxnews

Studies that have been going on for decades will be ended.

.@RepThomasMassie (R-KY) offers some choice words about the broken party dues system to @kylantern in article about new @IssueOneReform report about the "Price of Power": "It’s extortion and should be illegal” kentuckylantern.com/2025/04/01/kys…

Harlan and Anna Hubbard may be the most famous Kentuckians you’ve never heard of, Karla Ward writes in the @heraldleader. 1/4