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7 Nov 2012, 2:47 pm by Justin Beresky
Puerto Ricans are essentially U.S. citizens now, but do not enjoy voting representation in Washington DC. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 5:46 am by Lebowitz & Mzhen
The Pending Bill The bill that is currently awaiting a vote started off as a small exception to the general rule of contributory negligence in Washington DC, at first only applying to bicyclist accident victims. [read post]
24 May 2007, 6:43 am
House seat and the District of Columbia its first full-voting member: legal scholars completely disagree on the plan's constitutionality. [read post]
18 May 2017, 9:09 am by Jon Brodkin
Enlarge / Protestors object to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to eliminate net neutrality rules before Pai's appearance at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC on May 5, 2017. [read post]
23 May 2007, 5:10 am
On Thursday, the PCAOB will vote on the adoption of the new auditing standard. [read post]
20 Dec 2006, 4:08 pm
[Point of Law; relatedly, Childs] 10-2 DC City Council vote: DC businesses who don't want to hire a "rehabilitated" convicted sex offender to work with children (or DC residents who don't want to rent a room to one) can now be sued for punitive damages. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 10:30 am
The Washington Post reports: Facing a critical Senate vote today, supporters and opponents of the D.C. voting rights bill made impassioned speeches and lobbied on Capitol Hill in a last-minute push on the District's efforts to get its first full... [read post]
27 Oct 2007, 12:01 pm
It seems to me that Obama needs to convince people that he would have a different, better Iran policy were he too become president and not that he has a better view of how he hypothetically would have handled Senate votes were he to have actually been in DC on the day of the vote. [read post]
3 Nov 2007, 1:51 pm
Obama claimed "he did not get enough notice to return to dc to make that vote but 2 Democratic Senate sources tell CNN that all senators were advised the night before that the vote would come up the next day and Senator Obama should have known that vote was coming. [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 5:30 am by Ed. Microjuris.com Puerto Rico
Governor Ricardo Rosselló argued that other states had low turnout when they voted to join the union and he has a mandate to implement the “Tennessee Plan,” where he will appoint 7 “Members of Congress and Senators” from Puerto Rico who will travel to Washington, DC and demand to be seated as the Puerto Rico “Congressional Delegation. [read post]
6 Feb 2009, 4:51 am
The two major papers in Washington DC have these two dueling editorials about the on-going debate in Maryland concerning possible repeal of the state's death penalty: From the Washington Post here, "A Vote Against Cruelty" From the Washington Times here, "Demagoguery vs. capital punishment" Some related recent posts: Maryland commission urges abolition of state's death penalty As goes Maryland, so goes the nation on capital punishment? [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 8:57 am by Rick Hasen
Texas Redistricting Blog: The DC panel issued an order this morning denying the State of Texas’ request for summary judgment on preclearance of state house, state senate, and congressional maps. [read post]
13 Feb 2013, 5:51 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Violence Against Women Act Passes Senate with Increased Bipartisan Support for Tribal Provisions Recent Senate votes on VAWA indicate clear support for constitutionality of local tribal authority Washington, DC – In a 78–22 vote today, the Senate passed the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) with a net gain of ten votes since last year’s vote on the comprehensive S.1925 VAWA reauthorization. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 7:38 pm by Marvin Ammori
This company had stopped giving money to the staffer’s boss, a Congressman, because the boss had voted years earlier for a bill the company opposes. [read post]