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 Most notably, some of the most ambitious pieces of legislation including five of the bills in the State Senate’s Housing Production Package all failed to pass before the midnight deadline on August 31, 2020. [read post]
The Louisiana Legislature called itself into a second extraordinary session to address several issues confronting the state. [read post]
30 Sep 2020, 7:46 am by Kevin Kaufman
Amendment B, the Gallagher Amendment Repeal and Property Tax Assessment Rates Measure, was referred to the ballot by Senate Concurrent Resolution 20-001, which passed the legislature in June with a supermajority vote in each chamber. [read post]
30 Sep 2020, 6:15 am by Jennifer Davis
Senate is conceived as a fully elected body, thus removing the power of state legislatures to elect senators to the U.S. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
But if Biden wins the election and Republicans in state legislatures, in the Senate, and on the Supreme Court do not conspire with Trump to end the American constitutional experiment, perhaps we will someday look back on the debate of September 29, 2020, as the moment when Americans finally realized that Trump has no sense of decency.Follow @dorfonlaw Michael C. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 10:13 am by Hayley Tsukayama
More than fifty California organizations, businesses, and public officials—including the AARP of California, the San Francisco Tech Council, the California Center for Rural Policy, the Khan Academy, and a number of California cities and counties—join Common Sense Kids Action and EFF in urging Governor Gavin Newsom to call the legislature back into a special session to address the state’s digital divide. [read post]
They further contend that the court’s decision is also a violation of the US Constitution’s Elections Clause because it was rendered by the judiciary, rather than the state legislature. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 8:01 am by Kate Hirsch
The 10th District Legislators, Senator Jim Holzapfel and Assemblymen Greg McGuckin and John Catalano today responded to Governor Murphy’s announcement to extend the state’s Public Health Emergency for the seventh time since March. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 7:33 am by Ronald Newman
The ACLU has never shied away from a fight when civil liberties were at stake, whether that fight was in a courtroom, Congress or a state legislature, in the streets, [read post]
In August Democratic campaign committees of the US Senate and US House, the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans and Sylvia Bruni, chair of the Democratic Party in Webb County sued Texas’ chief election officer, Secretary of State Ruth Hughes over HB 25. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 1:47 pm by Amy Howe
” The emergency request came from Joseph Scarnati, the president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania State Senate, and Jake Corman, the Senate majority leader, seeking to block a ruling issued on Sept. 17 by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in a lawsuit filed by the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 10:10 am by SCOTUStalk
This guy had been convicted of mail fraud and at the time of the country’s founding, legislatures looked at whether or not someone was likely to be dangerous before they took away his gun rights. [read post]
The affidavit also said that a United States Postal Inspector reported that Glover had been receiving packages at Taylor’s address. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 6:17 am by Frank Pasquale
The goal appears to be creating enough delay and uncertainty so that GOP state legislatures send their own slates of electors to the electoral college in December. [read post]
26 Sep 2020, 6:24 am by Aaron Zeamer
 There is another bill pending in the legislature that would address this restriction. [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 2:39 pm by Robbie Kenney
“Massachusetts took the bull by the horns,” said Senator Joe Pennacchio, who has been calling for a Senate Select Committee to investigate the state’s handling of COVID in long-term care facilities since May. [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 12:40 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
After the Texas Legislature ended corporal punishment for white people in 1848, only black folks would have been beaten there. [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 10:57 am by Robbie Kenney
It’s a clear message from Murphy and his friends in the Legislature that they don’t care how bad they hurt hard-working New Jerseyans, even in the middle of a health emergency. [read post]