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20 Nov 2022, 9:55 am by David Kopel
Part III explains Bowie knives, and the infamous 1837 murder on the floor of the Arkansas legislature that may have spurred legislative action in several states. [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 9:53 am by David Kopel
Of the 220 state or territorial statutes cited in this post, 114 come from just 5 states: Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina. [read post]
14 Nov 2022, 4:00 am by jonathanturley
Denmark Groover (D) introduced runoff legislation “as a means of circumventing what is called the Negro bloc vote. [read post]
8 Nov 2022, 3:50 am by Kyle Hulehan
This election season is full of ballot measures that put legislation directly in the hands of voters. [read post]
2 Nov 2022, 2:12 pm by JURIST Staff
Of course, that is how a two-party system is set up, but it is still an unsettling feeling when people tell you that voting in New York or Alabama hardly matters. [read post]
2 Nov 2022, 5:31 am by Dakota Foster
Despite persistent efforts from California’s Republican legislators to end California’s state of emergency, it continues today. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 12:30 pm by John Ross
Ninth Circuit: There is an exception to Section 230 immunity under recent legislation, but only if the service provider itself violated federal trafficking law. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Rather, the Reconstruction Congress understood the Fourteenth Amendment chiefly as a mechanism by which Congress itself--protected against white Southern revanchism through Sections 2 and 3--would legislate via Section 5. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 10:46 am by Bernard Bell
In 2017, the New Jersey Legislature passed, and then-Governor Chris Christie was signed, legislation directing the State’s executive officials to effect New Jersey’s unilateral withdrawal from the Waterfront Compact and providing for the Commission’s subsequent dissolution. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 1:50 am by Kevin Kaufman
Georgia Under legislation adopted in 2022, Georgia will adopt a 5.49 percent flat-rate income tax in 2024 and ultimately phase that rate down to 4.99 percent. [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 6:51 am by Jeff Blackwell
In April, I wrote about proposed Alabama legislation to exempt rideshare workers from workers compensation protections. [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 12:30 pm by John Ross
Alabama's sex-offender registry law makes it impossible for him to find housing, forcing him to sleep under a highway overpass (among other inconveniences and indignities). [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
From the States and Municipalities Alabama – Supreme Court Debates Alabama’s Refusal of Second Black Voting District MSN – Robert Barnes (Washington Post) | Published: 10/4/2022 The U.S. [read post]
6 Oct 2022, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Milligan, Justice Jackson made an originalist move to resist the core contention of the Alabama Solicitor General, Edmund LaCour. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 4:43 am by SHG
It was drafted to give a foundational — a constitutional foundation for a piece of legislation that was designed to make people who had less opportunity and less rights equal to white citizens. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 4:19 am by Emma Snell
“Even as the Russian government moves legislation today to claim parts of Ukrainian territory illegitimately, the reality on the ground is that the Ukrainian armed forces continue to reclaim territory and consolidate their claims,” said Laura Cooper, the Pentagon’s deputy assistant secretary for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs. [read post]
4 Oct 2022, 5:50 am by Kyle Hulehan
Key Findings Alaska’s heavy reliance on oil and gas taxes and investment income creates extreme revenue volatility and complicates revenue forecasts. [read post]
4 Oct 2022, 3:00 am by Neil H. Buchanan
Rather than inflicting new levies, however, the legislation actually reduced the total tax on tea sold in America by the East India Company and would have allowed colonists to purchase tea at half the price paid by British consumers. [read post]
30 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Another case from Alabama involves a challenge to the state’s congressional map and whether Black voters’ power was illegally diluted. [read post]