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16 Aug 2022, 7:01 am
During the recent Senate Rules Committee hearing on Electoral Count Act reform, Senator Angus King (I-ME) asked a question that seems to be on many minds: What is the independent state legislature theory and how would it impact the casting and counting of electoral votes under the Electoral Count Act? [read post]
8 Apr 2017, 3:51 pm
And while House Bill 978 provides for stiffer penalties for bribery — a provision offered on the same morning a state senator was charged with taking cash payments in a phony development deal — the legislature made ... [read post]
1 Jun 2015, 11:36 am
The House and Senate failed to reach an agreement during the regular session on a budget bill for the public employee retirement system and the state retirement and investment office. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 6:49 am
Virginia is one of only two states (the other is South Carolina) in which the legislature appoints the justices of the state’s court of last resort. [read post]
8 Feb 2018, 5:22 am
The proposed constitutional amendment provides the legislature the opportunity to draw the state's congressional districts and approve them with a three-fifths vote, including at least one-third of the minority party. [read post]
6 Apr 2022, 8:19 am
The California Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday passed a bill that will empower private citizens to sue those who traffic illegal weapons into the state. [read post]
19 Aug 2020, 7:44 am
Under the Legislature’s joint rules, the Senate may convene independently for confirmation votes. [read post]
4 Jan 2024, 9:05 pm
The Wisconsin Legislature has assigned SB 781 to the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Tourism. [read post]
15 Jun 2023, 10:42 am
A bill in the New York State Legislature that would substantially reform New York’s antitrust laws and place the Empire State at the vanguard of antitrust enforcement has once again passed the New York State Senate and now rests with the Assembly. [read post]
29 Apr 2022, 10:29 pm
The decision came two days after the state’s highest court ordered the lower court to create new maps for congressional and State Senate districts, ruling that the old lines were improperly approved by the Democratic-controlled Legislature and drawn with partisan intent. [read post]
4 Apr 2023, 9:47 am
Senate Bill 2231 was sponsored by State Senators Larry Luick (R-ND) and Scott Meyer (R-ND), as well as State Representatives Claire Cory and Karen Carls (R-ND). [read post]
23 Jun 2022, 6:27 am
Moore notes that the Constitution’s elections clause states that the “Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof. [read post]
23 Apr 2017, 7:53 am
In passing Senate Joint Resolution 15, the Montana legislature has expressed its view that it would be unconstitutional for the state to adopt the ABA’s controversial Model Rule 8.4(g), which purports to ban “discrimination” and “harassment” in the legal profession in such a way as to cut into rights of lawyers’ speech and association, some of them distinctive to their role as client advocates [text, status Gavel to Gavel] Eugene Volokh… [read post]
17 Dec 2017, 5:16 am
Immigration was not a central issue in the campaign, which is somewhat surprising because the state legislature in 2011... [read post]
16 Sep 2014, 7:14 pm
From 1789 to 1913 the power to choose United States Senators was vested by the Constitution in the State legislatures. [read post]
2 Apr 2015, 4:05 am
By last night, the state Senate passed a revised version that apparently limits the bill's use to actions in which the government is a party. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 7:13 am
Additionally, you may view individually filed House and Senate bills. [read post]
22 Nov 2007, 12:25 am
Prayer in the Indiana legislature remains in the news. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 11:03 am
The North Dakota Senate approved House Bill 1521 on Wednesday, April 17. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 8:59 am
Several weeks ago I looked at the historical development of why some states have legislative involvement in judicial confirmation for their appellate courts and whether it was only the state’s senate that had a role or if it was a joint process. [read post]
