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25 May 2023, 2:20 pm by Michael Lowe
” Both the Texas Legislature and Congress have passed serious criminal statutes outlawing human trafficking. [read post]
24 May 2023, 9:11 am by Michael C. Dorf
They would have had a decent argument based on the Electoral Count Act, but, given the Court's flirtation with the independent state legislature theory, that would not have been a sure thing. [read post]
24 May 2023, 9:00 am by Mary B. McCord
”  By early 2020, concerned that Virginia’s newly “blue” state legislature would pass gun regulations, Rhodes announced that the  Oath Keepers would “deploy” to Virginia to help sheriffs “raise and train an official armed posse in each county” to resist the allegedly unconstitutional actions of the Democratic governor. [read post]
23 May 2023, 7:50 am by Evan George
It’s the largest landlocked state in the US, fourth largest after California, Texas, and Alaska. [read post]
22 May 2023, 4:37 am by Scott Bomboy
The power to do so would be based on an “independent state legislature” theory that cites the U.S. [read post]
19 May 2023, 12:30 pm by John Ross
After the Texas legislature amended its election code in 2021, the United States and others sued, alleging that the changes were racially discriminatory. [read post]
19 May 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
From the States and Municipalities Canada – Ford Government Defeats Attempt to Get Tough on Gift-Giving After Controversial Party and Wedding Toronto Star – Bob Fergiuson | Published: 5/11/2023 A bill that would have changed Ontario’s conflict-of-interest rules after developers attended a stag-and-doe party and wedding for one of Premier Doug Ford’s daughters has been blocked. [read post]
18 May 2023, 9:05 pm by Nabil Shaikh
The majority-Republican legislature passed the bill along party lines, making Texas the largest state to restrict transgender children’s access to medical treatment. [read post]
18 May 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Once might also think of “compelling state interest” arguments that justify deviation from what appear to be categorical prohibitions set out in the Constitution. [read post]
18 May 2023, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Yesterday the Texas legislature gave final approval to SB 14 (full text) which prohibits the provision of gender transitioning or gender reassignment procedures to individuals under 18 years of age. [read post]
17 May 2023, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
Thomas’s argument here would allow the state’s five-years-and-counting delay to justify its failure to give Smith a choice to which he is legally entitled. [read post]
17 May 2023, 10:06 am by Joe Mullin
  Some stateslegislatures, including California and Texas, have taken action to protect everyday peoples’ First Amendment rights by passing anti-SLAPP laws. [read post]
17 May 2023, 3:52 am by Charles Sartain
Here in Texas, the wind capital of the free world, our erstwhile laissez-faire Legislature loads the deck against alternative energy, says Texas Monthly. [read post]
16 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
Again, as a matter of apolitical priors, no one on the Court should want to give a President the ability to become a super-legislature and rewrite the laws. [read post]
16 May 2023, 3:35 pm by David Kopel
Board of Education, some state legislatures under the sway of anti-civil rights lobbies have engaged in massive resistance to Bruen. [read post]
16 May 2023, 1:41 pm by Michael Lowe
Texas (DSHS) Public Health Warning for Xylazine on March 21, 2023 Here in the State of Texas, an independent state health advisory for Texans was released on March 21, 2023 by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). [read post]
16 May 2023, 7:00 am by Julia Spiegel
The bill passed through the state legislature with overwhelming bipartisan support. [read post]
15 May 2023, 10:57 am by Amy Howe
They cautioned that if the panel’s decision is allowed to stand, it would “place state legislatures in an impossible bind: it would improperly turn the purported racial effect . . . of pursuing political goals and traditional criteria into racial predominance across an entire district. [read post]
14 May 2023, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
” On her reading, the constitutionalism of care and equality that characterizes the end state after misogyny is insufficiently critical of “a certain degree of expected and beneficial maternal “sacrifice” that is for the “common good,” even if the state compensates it. [read post]
12 May 2023, 5:05 pm by Christine Corcos
This Commentary builds the historical record critical to debates over the criminalization of abortion in state courts and legislatures. [read post]