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25 Oct 2018, 5:05 am by Jon Katz
Virginia homicide defense lawyer on Virginia’s history as a leading executioner This convicted capital defendant Timothy Spencer was executed in the electric chair in 1994 (apparently for a separate capital conviction in another Virginia county), when Virginia along with Texas was the nation’s leading executioner . [read post]
26 Sep 2021, 9:05 pm by Richard Briffault
Notable local efforts to make voting easier, along with hostile state pushbacks, occurred in Arizona, Iowa, and Texas, all involving local efforts to expand the availability of vote-by-mail. [read post]
19 Aug 2013, 8:34 pm by Joe Virene
State agency means an agency, department, commission, bureau, board, office, council, court, or other entity, that is in any branch of state government and that is created by the constitution or a statute of Texas. [read post]
25 Apr 2015, 2:52 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
With just a little more than a month left in the 84th Texas Legislature, let's survey the landscape regarding significant criminal justice bills which appear likely to pass. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 12:21 pm by Eric P. Robinson
There have several recent developments which mark a milestone in the evolution of social media platforms: their acceptance as mainstream forms of communication, on equal footing with older forms of communicating official or "important" messages.In late February, a bill was introduced in the Texas legislature (H.B. [read post]
And in Texas, the ACLU's Chris Soghoian testified at the state legislature about Stingrays and other police surveillance tactics, prompting one local paper to dig into the Houston Police Department's purchase of hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of Stingray equipment. [read post]
30 Jul 2022, 6:01 am by Benjamin Pollard
Anderson sat down with Derek Muller to discuss the independent state legislature doctrine in light of the pending Supreme Court case Moore v. [read post]
6 Mar 2015, 12:23 pm by By Chase Strangio, Staff Attorney, ACLU
So, how are state legislatures responding to this crisis in the trans community? [read post]
25 Aug 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
The Commerce Clause, in Nation and States,” at the U.S. [read post]
11 Jun 2013, 6:51 am by Michelle O'Neil
Business related topics such as new law passed by the Legislature, new cases reported out of the courts of appeals, interesting issues related to Texas family law are all appropriate topics of conversation. [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 1:24 pm by Dabney D. Ware
  In Florida, the ban is good for 90 days, and Governor DeSantis expects the legislature to pass similar protections. [read post]
2 Jul 2024, 10:06 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Stated that way—or, even worse, stated the way the legislatures did, “censorship” done for expressive purposes versus “censorship” done for nonexpressive purposes—it’s hard to imagine how the latter might dominate enough to save the law. [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]
26 Feb 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Cruz Returns from Cancun Amid Texas Crisis Politico – Andrew Desiderio and Marianne Levine | Published: 2/18/2021 U.S. [read post]
30 Aug 2024, 9:05 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  That chaos would have had swing-state Republicans invoking what is now known as the Independent State Legislature Theory (ISL), ignoring their Democratic governors, and appointing Trump electors. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 9:48 am by Lyle Denniston
  That case may be on hold until the Court decides what to do about a similar case from Texas. [read post]