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25 Apr 2017, 10:18 am
The announced protocol is similar to those which have been used for several years in other death penalty states, including Texas. [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 8:05 am
Such a conclusion would presumably still rule out the so-called fetal heartbeat laws — like the one passed by the Texas legislature — that ban abortion at six weeks’ gestation.Roberts has long signaled that he wants to restrict abortion rights but also does not want the Supreme Court to arouse the potential backlash and loss of legitimacy that would come with overturning Roe. [read post]
8 Sep 2020, 5:18 am
In a blog post for the National Conference of State Legislatures, Lisa Soronen summarizes the court’s unofficial coronavirus docket — a series of emergency rulings involving challenges to stay-at-home orders or changes to election rules. [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 7:56 am
How about this:A three-judge panel Monday overturned a sanction against Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller — on a technicality.As the state's self-admitted "pro-prosecution" top judge on criminal matters, Keller has long provided another term for "technicalities" raised by defense attorneys when prosecutors or judges don't follow the rules.She calls them "harmless errors. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 3:51 am
The district includes 8,800 AT&T Mobility workers in Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. [read post]
13 Aug 2009, 4:22 am
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Reckless crimes are not 'violent felonies'Wisconsin Law JournalNoting that state legislatures don't draft criminal statutes with federal sentencing law in mind, Judge Frank H. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 3:59 am
Under the plan, measures approved by Washington could be repealed if both houses in two-thirds of the state legislatures vote to do so. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 10:37 am
We will work with the California legislature to resist federal government overreach. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 2:32 pm
The Montana legislature recently passed new restrictions on medical marijuana use within the state by making it harder for patients with chronic pain to get a prescription, limiting the number of prescriptions a doctor can write, and banning marijuana advertisements. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 2:32 pm
Meanwhile, an unlikely pair of legislators, Barney Frank (D-Mass) and Ron Paul (R-Texas) have introduced a bill to reclassify marijuana under the federal law, [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 12:02 pm
The Texas Legislature has passed specific criminal statutes designed to punish those who financially abuse the elderly. [read post]
12 Mar 2021, 3:00 am
Biden Signs Executive Order Promoting Voting Rights on 56th Anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ Seattle Times – Felicia Sonmez and Amy Gardner (Washington Post) | Published: 3/7/2021 President Biden signed an executive order aimed at promoting voting rights amid a push by Republican-led state Legislatures to roll back voting access in the wake of former President Trump’s 2020 loss and his baseless effort to cast doubt on the integrity of U.S. elections. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 8:47 am
After Wendy Davis’s famed pink-sneakered filibuster, then-Governor Rick Perry of Texas called a special session of the legislature to enact what The New York Times called “one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the country. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 3:00 am
State Workers May Have to Choose. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 12:31 pm
Texas, and Windsor. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 5:16 pm
” In response, the state legislature invented the civil union as a marriage alternative—same benefits, different name. [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 6:30 am
But many states, of course, allow popular initiatives and referenda as ways to engage in end-runs around what may be accurately perceived as sclerotic legislatures unwilling to countenance needed constitutional reforms. [read post]
30 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
Republican-run states from Georgia to Texas to Arizona to my own state of Florida have been busily passing anti-voting laws that must be overridden by those two essential pieces of federal legislation.For D.C. residents themselves, however, the problem is not that they cannot vote because of Republicans’ contrived claims about voter fraud or for other pretextual reasons. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 8:29 am
Ohio and other large states like Texas tried to grapple with this problem through the use of appellate commissions. [read post]
26 Jul 2024, 3:00 am
Ethics Commissions: Obliging government to control itself National Conference of State Legislatures – Helen Brewer and Adam Kuckuk | Published: 7/23/2024 Government makes rules for the people, but who makes the rules for the government? [read post]
