Two bills may become one to muster support in response to Sawyer ruling

Jack Sawyer, 18, of Poultney appears in Vermont Superior Court in Rutland on April 17, 2018. Pool photo by Ryan Mercer/Burlington Free Press
A panel of House lawmakers is looking to combine a popular domestic terrorism bill with a less popular rewrite of the state’s “attempts” statute in a move they hope will lead to the passage of both.Both pieces of legislation have been brought forward in response to a Vermont Supreme Court ruling in the case of an 18-year-old man accused of