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22 Dec 2011, 12:21 pm by Rachel Myers, ACLU
Pat Quinn signed into law Senate Bill 3539, ending Illinois' dysfunctional and broken death penalty system. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 11:12 am
“So it defies logic that the $8 billion in higher taxes imposed upon the people of this state by an unchecked Democratic legislature have had no impact on that cost of living. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 9:26 am by Bill Raftery
The issue of jury nullification has come back up into the news lately, but it has been peculating in state legislatures for the last several years. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 4:00 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I suppose that's what the Senate Criminal Justice Committee will be discussing at the hearing on their interim charge. [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 12:27 pm by Lyle Denniston
  At issue are the districts for which voters will choose members of the state house, the state senate, and Texas’s 36 members of the U.S. [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 9:16 am by Robert Thomas (inversecondemnation.com)
The 2011 Final Reapportionment Plan apportioned each house of the state legislature by allocating and maintaining, as to the Senate, eighteen seats for Oahu County, three seats for Hawaii County, three seats for Maui County, and one seat for Kauai County. [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 6:07 am by Bill Raftery
It is expected to go to the Senate Judiciary Committee when the Washington legislature comes back into session January 9. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 8:45 am by Ken Shigley
In November, the Council released its findings and recommendations, with the underlying goal of protecting and improving public safety, in a report to the legislature and other state leadership. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 8:25 am by Bill Raftery
New laws or resolutions affecting the courts enacted or adopted by the New Jersey legislature in 2011 include the following: SB 1392 Requires Judicial Retirement System and other State-administered pension systems train employers on enrollment requirements. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 8:21 am by Steve Hall
The fact is, that Texas juries are using it just as polls indicated they would when the Legislature was again debating the bill, authored by state Sen. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 4:54 am by Ted Frank
That's a simple application of the Supremacy Clause: when the states and the federal government conflict, the federal government wins. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 4:18 am by Joe Price
The Senate bill allows state oversight of money collected for an “impact fee” to be paid by gas companies in the Marcellus Shale region. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 9:02 pm by Lyle Denniston
Meanwhile, in the Supreme Court, both state officials and challengers of the legislature’s maps are to file briefs on the merits next Wednesday. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 6:23 pm
Two legislative sessions have passed since State Senator Chris Smith, a Democrat, whose District 29 encompasses parts of Broward and Palm counties, voted with Republicans to eliminate reasonable fees from the state's workers' compensation system for claimants' attorneys. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 5:11 pm
Two legislative sessions have passed since State Senator Chris Smith, a Democrat, whose District 29 encompasses parts of Broward and Palm counties, voted with Republicans to eliminate reasonable attorneys' fees from the state's workers' compensation system for claimants' attorneys. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 8:04 am by Teri Rodriguez
Senator Watson has been named "Rookie of the Year" and one of the state's “10 Best Legislators” by Texas Monthly. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 12:00 am by Sebastian Rowland
See related RegBlog post.The House passed a bill that will give the State Department a 60-day period to decide whether to permit the Keystone XL pipeline. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 4:54 pm by Mandelman
 My guess would be that most of the elected representatives in the Hawaii legislature didn’t even view what’s happening as a “crisis. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 12:12 pm by Eva Arevuo
Senate seats, the governorship, the state Legislature and most statewide offices. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 10:13 am by Steve Hall
Pfeifer was a state senator and chairman of the Ohio Senate's Judiciary Committee in 1981 when the current death penalty statute became law. [read post]