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2 Jul 2015, 6:31 am
(Before the 17th Amendment, the Senate was indirectly representative, because Senators were elected by state legislatures. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 10:43 am
Senator Christopher J. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 7:43 am
Passed as an amendment after a senate bill failed to get a House floor vote, this legislation will reduce incarceration for property crimes at the margins in a move Grits has advocated for years. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 1:30 am
Supreme Court Appointments: Judge Bork and the Politicization of Senate Confirmations. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 12:37 pm
” And in particular, Roberts emphasized, the entire purpose of the Seventeenth Amendment was to allow the people in each state – rather than the state “Legislature” – to elect senators. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 7:37 am
There is no easy answer, and that conundrum is what produced a legitimate 5-to-4 divide," writes lawprof Richard Pildes in a NYT op-ed about the opinion in Arizona State Legislature v. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 6:00 am
From The Wall Street Journal: The New York state Senate passed sweeping revisions Wednesday to alimony laws that change how some payments are set and eliminate a long-debated requirement that judges calculate the lifetime value of a license or professional... [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 9:01 pm
Wade, anti-abortion state legislatures have enacted hundreds of laws that, while not completely forbidding abortion, make it difficult for women to obtain abortions. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 9:00 pm
VI: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States There is no debate that Marbury v. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 1:54 pm
Sources: Evans, Heidi and Kenneth Lovett, “Lavern’s Law dies as state Legislature is set to finish session,” NY Daily News, 25 June 2015. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 11:36 am
The Senate voted to adopt legislation sponsored by Senator Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth) creating a business advisory council to recommend job-creating ideas to the state Economic Development Authority, the legislature and the governor. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 2:28 am
In recent news, the Assembly and Senate of New York both passed a bill to amend the state’s tax law. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 9:01 pm
On June 24, 2015, the New York State Senate passed Bill A7645-2015 relating to the duration and amount of temporary and post-divorce spousal maintenance. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 9:01 pm
On June 24, 2015, the New York State Senate passed Bill A7645-2015 relating to the duration and amount of temporary and post-divorce spousal maintenance. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 9:53 am
The Colorado legislature made clear it was illegal to capture rainwater off of one’s rooftop, as it infringed on the supply of senior water rights holders downstream, when in 2009 the state authorized certain limited exemptions approved by the State Engineer on residential roofs where no municipal water supply is provided. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 6:40 am
In his dissent, Chief Justice Roberts stressed that only a handful of states had recognized same sex marriages with laws made in voting booths and legislatures. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 4:53 am
The Colorado legislature made clear it was illegal to capture rainwater off of one’s rooftop, as it infringed on the supply of senior water rights holders downstream, when in 2009 the state authorized certain limited exemptions approved by the State Engineer on residential roofs where no municipal water supply is provided. [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 8:39 am
As eloquently as President Obama can advocate for addressing these problems as a way to honor the too many African Americans killed by senseless violence, I doubt a Republican Congress or state legislatures will do so in the near term [with the possible exception of criminal justice reform]. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 1:26 pm
Our Constitution recognizes at least two forms of such legislative authority: the bicameral elected Congress subject to the presidential veto (the mode of adopting federal statutes), and the concurrence of three-fourths of the elected state legislatures or state conventions (the mode of adopting constitutional amendments). [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 9:57 am
Boquist’s testimony before the Oregon Senate? [read post]
