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7 Mar 2024, 5:29 am
Kitty Block is President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States. [read post]
26 Aug 2023, 12:26 pm
Electoral College majorities are barred from selecting as president a person who is less than thirty-five years old, not born in the United States, not a citizen of the United States, not a resident of the United States for at least fourteen years, or, while or after holding various federal or state offices, participated in an insurrection or rebellion against the United States. [read post]
16 Mar 2014, 9:27 pm
The First United States Congress proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution in 1789. [read post]
24 Feb 2022, 12:15 pm
As Congress... [read post]
11 Nov 2012, 4:15 pm
Barack Obama was re-elected President of the United States earlier this week. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 11:26 am
A case "involving a question of exceptional national importance: whether state legislatures and municipal governments may override Congress's judgment concerning United States immigration policy," as was described by the petitioning U.S. [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 4:15 am
As we enter 2024, major policy initiatives are pending at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and in Congress aimed at overhauling certain aspects of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) practice. [read post]
31 Dec 2014, 6:45 pm
Library of Congress – “This report contains information on laws regulating the collection of intelligence in the European Union, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, and Sweden. [read post]
25 Oct 2005, 7:59 pm
[JURIST] The US Justice Department [official website] told Congress Tuesday that it supported renewal of Section 5 [DOJ backgrounder] of the Voting Rights Act [text], preventing states with a history of discriminatory voting practices from implementing any change affecting voting until the US Attorney General or the United States District Court for the District of Columbia determined that the [read post]
4 Nov 2006, 7:16 am
At stake is control of Congress [NYT backgrounder] and a series of key state ballot initiatives [Stateline.org list, PDF] on hot-button legal and political issues. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 8:21 am
In 2006, Congress passed a bill that states the VA "shall" award contracts to veteran-owned small businesses if at least two such businesses bid on the work at a fair price. [read post]
15 Dec 2019, 4:12 pm
The Library’s United States telephone directory collection consists of 8,327 digitized reels of microfilm; of these, about 3,500 are presented in this collection. [read post]
31 Dec 2015, 5:46 am
The Supreme Court, the United States Congress, and state legislatures all started to get on the... [read post]
11 Aug 2012, 10:22 am
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Montana [official website] on Friday ruled [decision, PDF] that its state's November ballots may include Initiative 166 [text, PDF], a nonbinding policy statement that would direct the state's congress to support an amendment to the US Constitution [text] asserting that corporations are not people and money does not qualify as speech. [read post]
16 Jun 2016, 11:24 am
United States [SCOTUSblog materials] in favor of a veteran-owned business in a challenge against the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) [official website]. [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 4:00 am
Americans United For Separation of Church and State announced yesterday that its "Protect Thy Neighbor" (PTN) project has created a legislative tracking page that allows tracking of all RFRA-type legislation introduced into Congress or state legislatures-- legislation that it describes as "legislation that would allow individuals, businesses and government employees to harm others in the name of religion. [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 4:15 am
As we enter 2024, major policy initiatives are pending at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and in Congress aimed at overhauling certain aspects of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) practice. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 1:01 am
The first change came in 1866, when Congress passed a law regulating how and when senators would be elected in each state. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 9:16 am
Organized labor in the United States has experienced a steady decline in the last several decades, from a peak union membership rate of 35% during the mid-1950s to 10.7% in the year 2016. [read post]
23 Nov 2017, 7:55 pm
The keynote political address delivered before the 9th Party Congress describes the Party Constitution as:“(…) A product of the heroic leadership of the great leader Chairman Mao united with the broad masses, and which reflects the will of the whole Party, army, and the revolutionary masses of the whole nation. [read post]
