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14 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
If Harris does not put any particular new state into play, strategists and Biden allies were hoping her spot on the ticket could increase turnout and Biden’s margins across the map and strengthen his position in states Hillary Clinton lost, in no small part because of a drop in votes in African-American communities. [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 1:01 pm by Robbie Kenney
Senator Pennacchio said the testimony during a joint legislative meeting on nursing homes presented a solid case for creating a Senate Select Committee to investigate the state’s pandemic preparedness. [read post]
12 Aug 2020, 8:29 am by Robbie Kenney
To facilitate operations, the Administration and Legislature passed a bridge budget of almost $8 billion. [read post]
11 Aug 2020, 5:52 pm by Gerard Magliocca
Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment provides: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to… [read post]
11 Aug 2020, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
For the Symposium on Mark Tushnet, Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law (Yale University Press 2020).Mark TushnetConventions often reflect enduring values, and so I begin with the conventional statement of appreciation for the seriousness with which the contributors to this Symposium have taken my arguments. [read post]
Republicans in the state legislature dismissed the proposed legislation as logistically infeasible, however. [read post]
8 Aug 2020, 5:57 pm by David Super
  In some, this will require action by a legislature that has adjournedfor the year. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 1:30 pm by Robbie Kenney
“Once again, a severe storm and a huge power outage is a reminder of the need for the legislature to move this bipartisan bill,” said Pennacchio. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 1:00 pm by Guest Blogger
Delays in the counting of these ballots increase the possibility that our key swing states—all controlled by Republican state legislatures—certify Trump as having won. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 7:35 am by Kevin Kaufman
According to news reports, the Vermont legislature is ready to advance S54 this month or next, to legalize cultivation and sales of marijuana in the state beginning in 2022. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Mike Lee and former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 2:12 am by Jon L. Gelman
Our Legislature and state government must recognize that some of our social safety net programs are either broken or woefully inadequate, and work to fix them. [read post]
6 Aug 2020, 9:05 pm by Max Masuda-Farkas
Reynolds is committed to making the change permanent, and reiterated her commitment to pressing the state legislature to pass an amendment to the Iowa constitution. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 2:25 pm by Ernesto Falcon
We predicted this outcome at the beginning of the pandemic, and worked closely with Senator Lena Gonzalez in Sacramento to introduce S.B. 1130, to  end this inequality of access as state law. [read post]
(Last year, New Hampshire’s legislature passed a bill to allow all residents to vote by mail regardless of reason, but Governor Sununu vetoed it.) [read post]
4 Aug 2020, 10:23 am by John McFarland
For the first time, Texans also elected fourteen Black legislators, twelve to the House and two to the Senate. [read post]