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10 Jun 2012, 7:12 am by Rick Hills
It is as if Congress were to enact a federal statute authorizing a governor to rule a state free from the state legislature's control. [read post]
9 Jun 2021, 5:29 am by Robert Leider
In many states, the legislatures are part-time, leading to heavily compressed schedules. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 10:36 am by Kent Scheidegger
In California, even though prison officials confiscate thousands of phones from inmates every year, the Legislature isn't sure we can afford to make phone smuggling or possession illegal. [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 8:23 am by Sam Favate
Now, the Virginia Senate has passed a measure to eliminate the state’s limit of one handgun purchase per month, which was established in 1993 in response to gun smuggling operations, according to the New York Times. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 1:27 am
Paterson on Tuesday vetoed the Legislature's attempt to create new ethics panels to monitor elected officials and to require greater financial ...See all stories on this topic   For the MTA a Short-Term Fix Brings Long-Term HarmHuffington Post (blog)If Governor Paterson, Mayor Bloomberg, and Speaker Christine Quinn truly want to save mass transit, they must support congestion pricing. ...See all stories on this topic   Teachers union and city schools heads testify on… [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
If they failed to do that, they could have the legislature award the electoral votes to the Republican. [read post]
25 Jun 2008, 4:12 am
"Lunsford will be in Massachusetts on Wednesday to push the state Senate to include mandatory prison time in the state's final version of Jessica's Law, according to the Herald. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 1:25 pm by Steve Hall
Elected three weeks ago in a special election, Gerratana would be the 18th senator to favor repeal, just enough to force a tie in the Senate that the presiding officer, Lt. [read post]
14 Jul 2021, 6:17 am by Joseph D. Kearney
The state legislature and every local land-use agency moved with alacrity to approve the proposal. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 5:00 pm by Eric Biber
  EPA is (as bureaucracies should do) implementing the orders of the legislature through duly enacted laws. [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 10:02 pm
" The state GOP faces difficult challenges in making even small inroads into the Democratic lock on the Legislature. [read post]
Senator Christopher Murphy (D-CT) and Senator Al Franken (D-MN) introduced the bill to prohibit any covenant-not-to-compete agreement for workers paid less than a “livable hourly rate. [read post]
20 Jun 2017, 9:14 pm by News Desk
Craig Hickman, D-Winthrop, was the sponsor of bill last year that was killed by the Senate. it would have inserted a “food sovereignty” section into Maine’s state constitution. [read post]
11 Mar 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  Even though a hefty majority of Floridians, including Republicans, voted to relieve the ban, Governor Ron DeSantis (should one say “of course”) together with Republicans in the Florida legislature has done everything he could to minimize the actual importance of the Florida referendum, enabled, as well, by Republican judges on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Republican judges friendly to state claims of “rationality. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 12:08 pm by Cody M. Poplin, Elina Saxena
  Finally, Quinta shared that finally a legislature has approved a Syria AUMF—that is, the Russian legislature. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 3:08 pm by Eugene Volokh
I doubt that this is what the author of the bill (state senator Keith Regier) intends, but it’s what the bill, as written, is likely to do. [read post]
12 Apr 2013, 12:16 am by Dan Flynn
Joe Stallings, a Craighead County health officer, unsuccessfully argued that the Arkansas Legislature should not be “moving the clock back. [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 12:55 pm by Cleve Clinton & Jamie Ribman
Hailed as tort-reformers, State Senator Joan Huffman and State Rep. [read post]