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20 Jun 2022, 7:51 am by Kelly McClure
  Suits challenging acknowledgements signed before September 1, 2011 must be filed within four years of the date the acknowledgement was filed with the state. [read post]
19 Jun 2022, 7:36 am by Warigia Bowman
During Reconstruction in Texas, notes the Texas Almanac, “52 African-American men served Texas either in the Legislature or as delegates to the Constitutional Convention. [read post]
19 Jun 2022, 7:01 am by Kyleanne Hunter
And bills currently working their way through the legislatures of states such as Florida and Arizona in anticipation of the Supreme Court decision will restrict access to abortion in those states. [read post]
17 Jun 2022, 12:40 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  Years before, Shelby County gave the green light to suppress non-Republican votes, and the Republican-gerrymandered states have taken up that cause with gusto, including last year's orgy or disenfranchisement in Georgia, Texas, Florida, and elsewhere. [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  But many states, of course, allow popular initiatives and referenda as ways to engage in end-runs around what may be accurately perceived as sclerotic legislatures unwilling to countenance needed constitutional reforms. [read post]
9 Jun 2022, 12:57 pm by James Jolin
Applying this more critical, quasi-cost-benefit analysis, the Court found two Texas abortion statutes to be impermissibly burdensome. [read post]
Eight months before the 2016 presidential election, the President of the United States nominated a respected jurist to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
But given that the Court has already figured out how to effectively ban abortions via its so-called shadow docket (refusing to block Texas’s infamous SB8 and its $10,000 citizen bounty-hunter [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 5:00 pm by Michael Ehline
This is what parents faced at Uvalde Texas who demanded police do something, or they would. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 10:32 am by Roger Parloff
  Potential Blanket Legal Barriers Here is the text of Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any S [read post]
3 Jun 2022, 4:37 am by Philip Mousavizadeh
The New York state legislature passed legislation yesterday to raise the age to buy a semi-automatic rifle. [read post]
3 Jun 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Maker of Rifle in Texas Massacre Is Deep-Pocketed GOP Donor MSN – Isaac Stanley-Becker (Washington Post) | Published: 5/27/2022 The owners of Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the rifle apparently used in the massacre of 21 people in Uvalde, Texas, are wealthy Republican donors, giving to candidates and committees at the federal and state level aligned against limits on access to assault rifles and other semiautomatic weapons. [read post]
1 Jun 2022, 9:26 am by Alan Z. Rozenshtein
The Florida law and similar efforts—e.g., the even-broader Texas law—are politically motivated and poorly thought out. [read post]
New York Governor Kathy Hochul, State Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins and House Speaker Carl Heastie Tuesday confirmed that ten bills have been introduced in the State Assembly and Senate to strengthen New York’s gun regulations following the horrific mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas. [read post]
1 Jun 2022, 3:28 am by Paul Singer and Beth Chun
This applies to users who reside in Texas, do business in Texas, or share or receive expressions in this state. [read post]
31 May 2022, 11:00 am by Neil H. Buchanan
Buchanan  A week ago today, an eighteen-year-old armed with a weapon that would be nearly impossible to obtain in most countries killed 19 children and 2 adults in Uvalde, Texas. [read post]