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7 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Arizona – Legislative Election Committees Catered to Conspiracy Theorists Arizona Mirror – Caitlin Sievers | Published: 4/5/2023 Republican-controlled committees in both chambers of the Arizona Legislature that were charged with vetting election-reform bills used their time this year to cater to fringe right-wing conspiracy theorists and to approve measures that would make big changes to how elections are run in this state. [read post]
29 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
In both swing states and safe seats, Republicans say liberals hate them personally and may turn rioters or a police state on people who disobey them. [read post]
17 Nov 2020, 4:55 am by Kevin Kaufman
Taxes, Fees, and Government Charges on Wireless Service, July 2020 State Rankings 2020 Wireless State-Local Rate 2019 Federal USF Rate 2020 Combined Federal/State/Local Rate 1 Illinois  22.37% 9.83% 32.20% 2 Arkansas 20.21% 9.83% 30.04% 3 Washington 19.83% 9.83% 29.66% 4 Nebraska 19.30% 9.83% 29.13% 5 New York 18.75% 9.83% 28.59% 6 Kansas 16.68% 9.83% 26.51% 7 Utah 16.64% 9.83% 26.47% 8 Pennsylvania 16.48% 9.83% 26.31% 9 Rhode Island 15.39% 9.83% 25.22% 10 North… [read post]
4 Jan 2019, 2:36 pm by Brett Holubeck
There will also be several states that will enact new laws to combat sexual harassment this year. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 9:09 pm by Eugene Volokh
Summary of Argument Out of respect for religious freedom, legislatures have long provided religious groups with exemptions from generally applicable laws. [read post]
Other States, such as Texas, have taken a more sweeping approach, banning all Russian-origin products outright. [read post]
7 Nov 2018, 12:06 pm by Sara Amundson
Whitmer has a strong record of animal protection from her service in the state legislature, including votes to uphold the protections for wolves and other wildlife species, so her victory is great news. [read post]
7 Nov 2018, 12:06 pm by Sara Amundson
Whitmer has a strong record of animal protection from her service in the state legislature, including votes to uphold the protections for wolves and other wildlife species, so her victory is great news. [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 5:03 am by Edith Roberts
” Briefly: At the National Conference of State Legislatures’ blog, Lisa Soronen discusses last week’s decision in Endrew F. v. [read post]
7 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The recount of Maricopa County’s nearly 2.1 million ballots was ordered by the GOP-led state Senate, despite the fact that county officials, as well as state and federal judges, found no merit to claims the vote was tainted by fraud or other problems. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 6:05 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Letting probationers earn their way off supervision through good behavior just makes good sense from the standpoint of managerial efficiency, reduced recidivism and simple economics.There are plenty of other policy changes that could be made to reduce Texas' prison population without harming public safety, but strengthening diversion programming instead of eliminating it should be at the top of the Legislature's list. [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 4:59 pm
"My point is the Texas Legislature could pass all kinds of laws ... and it wouldn't make any difference to a guy like that. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 8:59 pm by Lyle Denniston
  That plan, adopted by the state legislature, has accounted for as much as 81 percent of the entering freshman classes in Austin. [read post]
26 Jan 2010, 3:36 pm
The Texas Legislature Online ( http://www.legis.state.tx.us/ ): Okay, not everyone practices law in Texas. [read post]
21 Jun 2018, 10:10 am by Amy Howe
It began as a challenge to maps drawn by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature in 2011. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
I suspect, for example, that if migration suddenly created some Democratic-majority districts in Texas that had never existed before, the Republican-dominated state legislature there would “fix” that problem right quick. [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 7:59 am by Lyle Denniston
   In 1997, the Texas legislature reacted by enacting what is called the “Top Ten Percent Law.”  Under that, any Texas state university was required to admit automatically a student who had finished in the top ten percent of the class in a Texas high school. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 6:31 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
Post Dobbs, 26 stateslegislatures have significantly restricted or banned abortion access, including during emergencies. [read post]