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19 Jan 2023, 5:01 am
All of these are issues best addressed in the first instance by the legislature rather than the courts. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 1:36 am
Texas still celebrates Confederate Heroes Day on Lee’s actual birthday, January 19, and its state employees can take a paid holiday on both days. [read post]
13 Jan 2023, 2:36 pm
The legal question before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (“CCA”) in a November 2, 2022 decision, State v. [read post]
11 Jan 2023, 10:46 am
In response to this issue, Monica's Law created a registry of protective orders that have been issued in the state of Texas. [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
(If one takes some contemporary arguments seriously, then they were left to the autonomous choices of “independent state legislatures”!) [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 3:00 am
The measure raises the threshold necessary for members of Congress to object to a state’s electors. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
The describes the British treatment of the American colonial legislatures, willy-nilly vetoing their laws. [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 6:30 am
This would mean, among other things, that it would be both desirable—and perhaps even constitutionally necessary—to repeal the 1842 act of Congress, reaffirmed in 1969, requiring single-member districts to elect members of the House of Representatives and to require states, in structuring their own legislatures, to reject single-member districts in favor of systems that would allow much greater variation in those actually elected than is now the case. [read post]
26 Dec 2022, 7:14 pm
That would mean lobbying Congress to propose the amendment and then mounting a campaign for its adoption by state legislatures. [read post]
26 Dec 2022, 4:03 pm
Meanwhile, two laws that were passed last year by state legislatures in Texas and in Florida are being argued about in federal courts, with mixed results. [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 5:41 pm
” He was informed that his allegations were false by Justice Department officials Jeffrey Rosen and Richard Donoghue, and twice by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 3:00 am
Measures that promoted early voting and increased access to the ballot box saw wins in multiple states, but so did restrictive proposals that tightened voter ID laws or barred non-citizens from voting on local matters. [read post]
21 Dec 2022, 6:30 am
By contrast, consider Sandy’s adopted home state of Texas. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 6:30 am
Abbott, a case that held it was indeed constitutional for Texas to continue the near-universal American practice of counting all residents, not just citizens or voters, for redistricting purposes. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 5:58 pm
Specifically, the initiative will: Develop technical assistance resources and tools that can assist local and state law enforcement agencies in their efforts to provide meaningful language access to LEP individuals and populations within their jurisdiction. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 5:19 pm
The legislative history of § 1021.11 suggests the legislature understood the punitive effect of the law, but enacted it anyway: "While the goal of repurposing the Texas law may be sound, these problematic provisions may not justify those ends. [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm
While Baehr was pending on remand, Hawaii voters amended the state constitution by referendum to give the legislature the power to ban same-sex marriage, which it did (and then reversed itself in 2013). [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 10:17 am
The Navajo Express settlement resolves DOJ charges Navaho Express violated the INA by discriminating against non-U.S. citizen workers when checking their permission to work in the United States. [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 4:30 am
Although these laws differed considerably, their hallmark was their empowerment of uninjured individuals to bypass state authorities and directly use the machinery of the courts to remedy something the legislature considered a harm to the public at large. [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 2:45 am
Seventeen states allow local income taxes in addition to state-level personal income taxes. [read post]
