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5 Nov 2014, 1:01 pm by Joel S. Barras
The big news on Election Night 2014 was, of course, the Republican Wave and that party’s takeover of the Senate majority, as well as many governors’ mansions and state houses. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 11:06 am by Benjamin Bissell
Leung in recent days include the city’s legislature’s head, the leader of a pro-Beijing labor union and the head of pro-business party. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 9:00 am
On November 1, 2014, the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) submitted its Sunset Review Report to the Legislature. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 8:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
For the most part, the Texas Legislature typically doesn't care much what happens in other states. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 6:28 am by Walter Olson
Mark Pryor, chief Senate handler of the awful CPSIA law, lost big. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 11:15 pm by Lovechilde
’ Because the Supreme Court says money is speech and big business can buy all it wants, corporations are trying to drown out the voice of anyone trying to speak out against them, whether in Congress or a state legislature, on a judge’s bench or in city hall. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 1:33 am by Jon Gelman
“They can’t get it through the legislatures in these red states, so they do it this way. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 8:36 am by The Rotolo Law Firm
The Keystone group believes that giving minors direct access to treatment will help them overcome the stigma that too often keeps them from seeking the help they need.(2) The bill received unanimous approval by the State Assembly’s Women and Children Committee when it was introduced early last month and has been presented to the Senate’s Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee for initial approval at its next voting session scheduled for November 13. [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 9:02 pm by Lyle Denniston
Briefs on the merits The Zivotofsky family’s merits brief provided a sturdy defense of congressional authority, in fact arguing that the national legislature holds superior power in the field of passport regulation. [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 6:42 am by Jim Sedor
Senate races across the South are turning to racially charged messages jolt African-Americans into voting and stop a Republican takeover in Washington. [read post]
30 Oct 2014, 12:02 pm by Richard Hasen
In the 2000s, the Alabama legislature, controlled by Democrats, drew a state redistricting plan that contained the same number of majority-minority House and Senate districts as the 1990s plan, and also preserved the percentage of African-American voters in each of these districts. [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 5:00 am by Ronald Collins
Katzmann: An important part of a judge’s responsibility is interpreting statutes, whether it be the laws of Congress or those emanating from state legislatures. [read post]
24 Oct 2014, 6:50 am by Jim Sedor
He also agreed to help prosecutors in any other investigations into wrongdoing involving the Legislature. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Textually, Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution provides that “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives” (emphasis added). [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 5:55 pm by Liza Hanks
When I worked in the US Senate, I was particularly thrilled by National Ice Cream Day (the third Sunday in July) and when I worked in the California State Legislature there was one day when bikers from all over California rode around the capital to protest helmet laws (I’m not sure if that was an official day or not). [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 11:03 am by Matthew R. Arnold, Esq.
State Senator Phil Berger said he will push a bill in the state legislature designed to protect magistrates, registrars of deeds and state employees who refuse to officiate same-sex weddings on the basis of their religious beliefs. [read post]
20 Oct 2014, 5:47 pm by Michael Froomkin
If elected he’ll support expansion of medical care to the poor (if the legislature lets him), and ought generally to check the excesses of our very right-wing legislature. [read post]
20 Oct 2014, 5:00 am by The Public Employment Law Press
”* 4 NYCRR 73.3 [b].** The SPONSORS MEMO in support of Senate S5846, which was enacted into law as Chapter 491 of the Laws of 2011, states that the purpose of the bill was “amend the civil service law and the state finance law, in relation to compensation and other terms and conditions of employment of certain state officers and employees. [read post]