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6 Mar 2011, 9:18 am
The Utah Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act [HB 497 text, PDF] replaces the older version [HB 70 text, PDF] of the law that had lost favor with state Senate members in the last few weeks. [read post]
5 Mar 2011, 8:42 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, internet content providers and other groups filed suit in federal court against the state Legislature’s amendment, arguing that the reworded law was overly broad. [read post]
5 Mar 2011, 7:50 am
As a result, this year the legislature repealed the existing statute and replaced it with a new c. 188. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 11:24 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller So, you're a state senator in the deep South. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 2:17 pm
Says Jim Lindgren: I would hope that those who rely on the arrest clause of the state constitution would deal with the fact that the privilege against arrest applies “in all cases. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 1:16 pm
At first blush, the State Constitution would seem to provide explicit immunity from arrest for members of the state legislature. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 11:55 am
In this case, there was no such language, even though, as the SCOV notes, it was promulgated and passed through the legislature by Senator Illuzzi on behalf of his fellow Essexian. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 9:11 am
United StatesDocket: 10-516Issue(s): Whether an essential element to be proven for a conviction for the offense of bribery of a state or local official under 18 U.S.C. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 9:05 am
[JURIST] The South Dakota State Senate on Wednesday passed a bill [roll call] that would require women to wait 72 hours after consulting with a doctor to have an abortion. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 8:56 am
JudgeDocket: 10-367Issue(s): (1) Whether the Seventeenth Amendment's express delegation of power to "direct" an election to fill a vacant seat in the United States Senate to state legislatures precludes a federal judge from selecting the candidates that shall appear on the ballot; (2) whether the Seventeenth Amendment allows a state to forgo a special election and instead permit a temporarily appointed United States… [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 8:13 am
The Wisconsin state legislature certainly doesn’t have the authority to go to Illinois and “detain” the minority members, right? [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 6:18 am
The bill is currently pending in the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 10:31 pm
(Jim Lindgren) Does the Wisconsin Senate have the power to compel absent Democratic senators to return to the senate floor if they re-enter the state of Wisconsin? [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 10:16 pm
LTCCC found that both the State Senate (D-) and State Assembly (C) were essentially useless. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 1:53 pm
Both bills have passed in the House of Representatives and now move forward for consideration by the Senate Business, Labor, and Economic Affairs Committee on March 15, 2011. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 12:47 pm
Thus the Republican senators do not need the presence of the Democrats to pass the most controversial parts of Wisconsin Senate Bill 11.Here is the abstract: Super Quorums under the Wisconsin Constitution This essay takes a brief and preliminary look at the remedies available to the Wisconsin Senate to enact its 2011 proposed budget legislation without Democratic senators who fled the state in February 2011. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 12:43 pm
Such efforts would require two consecutive legislatures to approve it (majority vote only), plus approval at the ballot box. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 10:45 am
When Republican State Senator Carolyn Allen decided not to run for another term after serving in the legislature 16 years, she gave this as her reason: “I do not want to live in the police state that Russell Pearce, Joe Arpaio and Andy Thomas are spearheading. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 10:30 am
Senator Has Long Been a Champion of These Reforms Senator Steve Oroho (R-Sussex, Morris, Hunterdon) praised the passage of two bills (S-2753 and S-2754) in both houses of the state legislature that would streamline New Jersey’s cumbersome tax structure. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 7:45 am
I don't mind state government providing support to hospital trauma centers, this is just the wrong way to do it.In the meantime, though, this Amnesty program is open and active for another six weeks, no matter what happens at the Legislature. [read post]
