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24 Apr 2023, 5:16 am by Riana Pfefferkorn
Schatz reintroduced his bill two days after a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on protecting children online. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Getting Republican senators to sign off on Biden nominees in their home states has been a struggle, slowing the Democratic drive to fill as many judicial slots as possible. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Chris Van Hollen, who leads the appropriations subcommittee charged with writing the annual funding bill for the judiciary, has expressed support for the idea. [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 3:55 pm by Tatiana Venn
Our team of highly experienced voting rights attorneys have stopped discriminatory elections in Hawaii, and cleaned up voter rolls in California, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, among other achievements. [read post]
20 Mar 2023, 8:52 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a strong supporter of abortion rights. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Jordan Fires Off First Subpoenas Against Biden Admin MSN – Jordain Carney and Kyle Cheney (Politico) | Published: 2/3/2023 House Judiciary Committee Chairperson Jim Jordan issued the first subpoenas of the GOP’s new majority, demanding records about certain Biden administration decisions regarding threats against school officials during the Covid-19 pandemic. [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 8:04 am by Jim Sedor
‘Stealth’ Efforts to Influence Supreme Court Discussed by Judiciary Committee MSN – Ann Marimow and Emma Brown (Washington Post) | Published: 12/8/2022 In testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, evangelical minister Robert Schenck said he encouraged wealthy Christian couples to use tactics like donations to the Supreme Court Historical Society to meet justices and to parlay those encounters into closer relationships to achieve their objectives at the… [read post]
11 Nov 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Judiciary Launches Online Database of Judges’ Financial Disclosures Reuters – Nate Raymond | Published: 11/7/2022 Members of the public will be able to search federal judges’ financial disclosure reports detailing their assets and stock trades through a congressionally mandated online database that went live recently. [read post]
13 Oct 2022, 8:55 am by Lawrence Solum
Harper) in which Republican Party legislators invoke the ISLD doctrine to contend that state legislators are at liberty to create entirely partisan congressional districts, freed from constraints in the North Carolina Constitution as interpreted by the state’s judiciary. [read post]
5 Aug 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Justice Department has charged five people for making threats of violence against election workers amid a rising wave of harassment and intimidation tied to the 2020 presidential race, a top official told the Senate Judiciary Committee. [read post]
22 Jul 2022, 5:43 am by Bernard Bell
  That is a highly contestable assumption, particularly in the modern administrative state and given modern congressional practice. [8]  Indeed, such a mode of interpretation would confront Congress with an unenviable choice that could lead to more, not less, capacious delegations of quasi-legislative powers to agencies. [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 6:30 am by Mark Graber
California (1884)  that state power to pursue the common good is limited by the individual rights enumerated in the first eight amendments to the Constitution of the United States, similarly maintained in Hawaii v. [read post]
8 Jul 2022, 10:14 am by Lisa Vicens and Samuel Levander
Five other states (California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Jersey), which together constitute roughly a quarter of this country’s population, now have laws that are subject to challenge and may be struck down. [read post]
24 Jun 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Interest groups spent a record $1.8 billion on state lobbying in 2021. [read post]
16 Jun 2022, 6:13 am by Ryan Goodman
Chesebro describes in detail the Hawaii 1960 case in Kennedy-Nixon, in which democrats met to issue a declaration during the state’s recount (which Kennedy ultimately won). [read post]
10 Jun 2022, 2:03 pm by Joanna Kamvouris
The Hawaii State Senate will convene a special session on June 20 to review judicial appointments. [read post]
10 Jun 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
State constitution-makers have through the years adopted innovations regarding the design of the legislature and executive and the structure and selection of the judiciary, whether adopting legislative term limits, a plural executive, the line-item veto, or an elected judiciary, to name just a few innovations. [read post]