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12 Apr 2016, 10:48 am
Senator Steven Oroho, a member of the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee, responded to Governor Christie’s announcement that the state’s once indebted Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund now contains a positive balance of $1 billion. [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 3:59 am
Abbott, holding that states and local governments may use total population to draw legislative districts; he contends that “[t]he curious feature of Justice Ginsburg’s opinion for the court is its rather lukewarm and overdetermined conclusion that considering total population is merely a permissible—rather than a required—calculus for legislatures working out how to divvy up their people into legislative districts. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 11:50 am
But what it also means is that I know how important to elect state legislatures, to elect Democratic governors, to elect a Democratic Senate and House of Representatives. [read post]
10 Apr 2016, 12:33 pm
Both the Governor and state legislature are apparently look at ways to reign in the State’s Supreme Court including, if necessary, ways to replace sitting justices with other jurists who more closely share their views. [read post]
9 Apr 2016, 10:52 pm
California State Senator Ricardo Lara has introduced Senate Bill 1289 in the state legislature that would prevent state and local officials from contracting with private prison companies for immigration detention. [read post]
9 Apr 2016, 7:58 am
And there have already been calls in other states to create similar avenues of redress. [read post]
9 Apr 2016, 6:26 am
Not to worry–nobody reported about a chief executive of a major U.S. corporation taking the 5th at a Senate hearing.) [read post]
9 Apr 2016, 6:26 am
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt took the 5th rather than answer questions about the from the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee. [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 10:25 am
After months in several Florida House and Senate committees, the State Legislature finally passed two related bills that were both signed by the Governor at the end of April. [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 6:02 am
She is interested in how it might play out in a court, before the Legislature, or the state Ethics Commission as to whether the tapes could be used. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 9:58 am
Photo of the Missouri State Capitol by Nickbigd on Wikimedia Commons. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 5:18 am
Battles over alternative apportionment schemes – in state legislatures, and then courts if necessary – are left for another day. [read post]
6 Apr 2016, 6:00 am
Abbott, holding that states and local governments may use total population to draw legislative districts, comes from Howard Mintz of The Mercury News. [read post]
5 Apr 2016, 11:27 am
Just the other day, the Idaho legislature passed a bill saying the Bible would be “expressly permitted” for classroom use, even though that law too violates the federal constitution and (even more clearly) the state constitution, as the AG’s office there also pointed out to no avail. [read post]
5 Apr 2016, 11:08 am
” Ed Blum engineered the Evenwelcase, seeking a constitutional rule requiring states to exclude children, unnaturalized immigrants and others from representation in state and local legislatures. [read post]
5 Apr 2016, 10:19 am
The Texas Legislature amended the Estates Code through House Bill (H.B.) 39 and Senate Bill (S.B.) 1881, (84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015) by adding the Supported Decision-Making Agreement Act. [read post]
5 Apr 2016, 7:15 am
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 21 states have enacted Religious Freedom Restoration Acts since 1993, when the federal law was enacted, and ten states are currently considering legislation on the topic. [read post]
4 Apr 2016, 6:44 pm
The overall tenor of the bill though is shared by both chambers of the Maryland Legislature; the House and the Senate share a strong desire to reduce the prison population and reinvest savings toward crime prevention through education and treatment. [read post]
4 Apr 2016, 1:28 pm
First introduced in the state Senate by Senator Leno on December 1, 2014, SB 3, was subject to contentious debate on both the Assembly and Senate Floors on March 31st. [read post]
4 Apr 2016, 10:59 am
Among the changes to the state’s law, Senate Bill 1516 allows groups registered with the IRS as “social welfare” organizations to withhold disclosing donor information, removes spending caps on expenditures for political fundraisers, and allows for candidate to candidate transfers of campaign funds. [read post]
