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11 May 2024, 3:00 am by jonathanturley
Now both Xavier University of Louisiana and the University of Vermont have yielded to expected protests and rescinded invitations to United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield. [read post]
10 May 2024, 9:31 pm by Steven Calabresi
If the Attorney General has the power to appoint prosecutors without Senate confirmation think of what he might do with that power in corrupt places like Cook Country, Illinois or New Orleans, Louisiana. [read post]
10 May 2024, 6:45 am by Evangelina Cantu
Another group of states and other parties intervened in support of the waiver authority. [read post]
10 May 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Democrats in the state House pushed for a vote to repeal the1864 law. [read post]
9 May 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
”Last month, the Jews Against Gassing Coalition, an organization that opposes state-sanctioned gas executions, helped persuade the Louisiana Senate Judiciary Committee to advance a bill that would undo Louisiana’s embrace of nitrogen hypoxia. [read post]
9 May 2024, 12:25 pm by Lawrence Solum
Here is the abstract: This paper explores the driving force behind Louisiana's secession, challenging the "Lost Cause" narrative which suggests that secession was primarily about states' rights rather than slavery. [read post]
Civil rights groups representing Black voters in the Louisiana congressional redistricting case have asked the Supreme Court to stay a three-judge panel’s ruling that the state’s latest map, which creates an additional minority opportunity district, is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. [read post]
9 May 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Campaign Finance Arizona: “Arizona Legislature Challenges Campaign Spending Law in Appeals Court” by Joe Duhownik for Courthouse News Service New Hampshire: “In New Hampshire Governor’s Race, Some Finance Reports Are Clearer Than Others” by Ethan DeWitt for New Hampshire Bulletin Rhode Island: “Campaign Finance Offender Lost Seven Bids for Office but Wins Mercy from Elections Panel” by Nancy Lavin (Rhode Island Current) for… [read post]
8 May 2024, 5:13 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The changes announced May 8 include the creation of a new OSHA regional office in Birmingham, Alabama, overseeing agency operations in the state, and those in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee as well as the Florida Panhandle. [read post]
Louisiana has given notice that it will appeal a three-judge panel’s recent preliminary injunction against use of the state’s latest congressional maps. [read post]
The report, entitled Democracy Defended, specifically focused on voter experiences in seven of the nation’s southern states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas. [read post]
5 May 2024, 6:03 pm by Kurt R. Karst
  The Democratic governors of Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey and New York advocated for rescheduling to schedule III to protect the public against more dangerous drug use asserting that legal marijuana products sold in states where they are legal “are significantly safer than myriad alternatives, including opioids. [read post]
4 May 2024, 11:26 am by Bill Marler
Walnuts were distributed to these 19 states: Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. [read post]
4 May 2024, 4:00 am by Public Employment Law Press
READ MORE   Federal Court Blocks Louisiana’s Latest Congressional Maps in any Election A 2-1 decision by a federal court stopped the state from using its new congressional map for any election, finding the changes Louisiana made to comply with the Voting Rights Act instead violated the 14th Amendment. [read post]
4 May 2024, 4:00 am by Public Employment Law Press
READ MORE   Federal Court Blocks Louisiana’s Latest Congressional Maps in any Election A 2-1 decision by a federal court stopped the state from using its new congressional map for any election, finding the changes Louisiana made to comply with the Voting Rights Act instead violated the 14th Amendment. [read post]
3 May 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Similar bills sailed through state Legislatures in recent years. [read post]