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14 Mar 2024, 5:05 pm
Medical journals, bar associations, human rights groups, United Nations Special Rapporteurs, and U.S. state legislatures are all grappling more robustly with the legal, ethical, and human rights issues associated with organ harvesting. [read post]
14 Mar 2024, 9:08 am
[2] See Senators Wiener & Stern Respond to Governor Pausing Funding To Implement Landmark Climate Laws | Senator Scott Wiener (ca.gov) [3] Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al. v. [read post]
13 Mar 2024, 12:57 pm
It simply requires that Trump and the Republicans mount a nonstop series of challenges -- before, during, and after Election Day -- that will create the noise necessary to allow Republicans in state legislatures and governors' mansions to refuse to appoint Biden's electors.If this requires that a Republican legislature override a Democratic governor, the Supreme Court's apparent rejection last year of the Independent State… [read post]
12 Mar 2024, 11:01 pm
The courts should resist the political currents, but here, the Judicial Conference has kowtowed to Senators Schumer and Whitehouse, and some scholars. [read post]
12 Mar 2024, 11:08 am
Across the country, state legislatures are rapidly advancing punitive bills and rolling back criminal justice reforms, largely in response to fears about crime. [read post]
12 Mar 2024, 7:55 am
“In my years in the Legislature, nothing has given me more satisfaction than this amendment,” said former Pennsylvania State Senator Franklin Kury. [read post]
12 Mar 2024, 12:10 am
But there are also some people in the legislatures who have worked to enact real progress. [read post]
11 Mar 2024, 6:30 am
Even though a hefty majority of Floridians, including Republicans, voted to relieve the ban, Governor Ron DeSantis (should one say “of course”) together with Republicans in the Florida legislature has done everything he could to minimize the actual importance of the Florida referendum, enabled, as well, by Republican judges on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Republican judges friendly to state claims of “rationality. [read post]
9 Mar 2024, 6:00 am
The Legislature quickly sought to pre-empt such rules. [read post]
9 Mar 2024, 6:00 am
The Legislature quickly sought to pre-empt such rules. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 3:38 pm
The bill now awaits approval from the Delaware Senate before it becomes law. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 1:24 pm
In fact, California, Maryland, and Massachusetts introduced bills in 2023 into their state legislature proposing similar obligations. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 8:10 am
The post Washington Legislature Adjourns Sine Die appeared first on State and Federal Communications. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 6:30 am
There is no reason to believe that a new US convention would be any more capable of working through these issues than the Congress or state legislatures. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 3:00 am
Sinema’s decision avoids a three-way contest in one of the most closely watched 2024 Senate races, a hard-to-forecast scenario that spawned debate among political operatives about whether one major party would benefit in the quest for the Senate majority. [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 7:16 am
It issued a per curiam opinion reversing the Colorado Supreme Court and effectively permitting Donald Trump’s name to appear on the Republican primary ballot.Section 3 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… [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 7:16 am
It issued a per curiam opinion reversing the Colorado Supreme Court and effectively permitting Donald Trump’s name to appear on the Republican primary ballot.Section 3 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… [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 6:32 am
We are now seeing the Louisiana legislature address some of these uncertainties head on with Senate Bill 285, which was filed on March 1, 2024 by Louisiana Senator Stewart Cathey, Jr. [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 3:49 am
Below is a partially (very partially) annotated version of the opinion.First, the Court quoted Section 3 in its entirety, so here it is (hopefully for the last time in my lifetime):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… [read post]
5 Mar 2024, 8:59 pm
The Constitution says that "each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress. [read post]
