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21 Jan 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Legislatures Across Country Back Off Pandemic Protocols Colorado Newsline – Sean Scully | Published: 1/19/2022 Across the nation, lawmakers are gathering for the annual ritual of legislative sessions, which in most states takes up the early months of the year. [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]
30 Jan 2023, 2:33 pm by ACLU
It was exactly one year ago, on the 49th anniversary of Roe, amid an unprecedented surge of anti-abortion attacks sweeping through state legislatures in the run-up to the Dobbs decision. [read post]
1 Mar 2019, 1:00 pm by John K. Ross
In 2016, New Mexico legislature amends the state's bail system to disfavor secured bonds. [read post]
25 Jul 2009, 9:00 am
  However, in   1978, Congress gave  the legislature of each state, such as the state of New  York,  the ability to “opt out” of the federal exemptions. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 7:46 am
Having analyzed on Saturday the Legislative Budget Board's incarceration projections for the adult prison system, let's take a look at LBB's projections regarding youth crime and incarceration in their five year population estimate (pdf) which is used to set agency budgets.Regular readers know that in 2007 the Legislature took steps aimed at reducing inmate populations at the Texas Youth Commission, including shifting 19-20 year olds to TDCJ and refusing to take… [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 5:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Harvey Hildebran, that's clearly aimed at the FLDS polygamist sect in West Texas but, naturally, will now apply to everybody. [read post]
5 May 2008, 3:25 pm
Last Monday was Entergy day at the state capitol The Texas Supreme Court has already granted rehearing, but last week the Texas Legislature held its own committee hearings with testimony from a number of witnesses about the Court’s decision in the case. [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 3:50 am
This board has lost confidence that the state of Texas can guarantee that every inmate it executes is truly guilty of murder. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 8:13 am by Steve Hall
Chambers' departure from the Legislature in 2008 because of term limits made it possible for lawmakers to pass the lethal injection bill. [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 12:47 pm by Ilya Somin
But the Supreme Court saw through this subterfuge and struck down PASPA, because it violated the anti-commandeering rule by putting state legislatures "under the direct control of Congress" and issuing "direct orders to state legislatures. [read post]
8 Apr 2020, 12:36 pm by Eugene Volokh
Steele (1894) (recognizing that "the state may interfere wherever the public interests demand it" and "discretion is necessarily vested in the legislature to determine, not only what the interests of the public require, but what measures are necessary for the protection of such interests"); Compagnie Francaise de Navigation a Vapeur v. [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 11:44 am
Similar legislation is expected to be introduced in the Texas Legislature when it reconvenes in early 2009. [read post]
3 Nov 2019, 6:50 pm by John Floyd
Just last year State Prosecuting Attorney Stacey Soule told the Texas Legislature’s House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee that in the previous 12 months the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals had reversed only four convictions involving prosecutorial misconduct. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 8:23 am by Sarnata Reynolds
Forest complained: “If you want to know why we can’t pass legislation in Texas it’s because we have 37, no 36, Hispanics in the Legislature. [read post]
17 Apr 2024, 9:03 am by Josh Blackman
" The Court unanimously ruled that DeVillier's claims could "proceed under Texas' state-law cause of action. [read post]