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31 Oct 2011, 9:14 am by Steve Hall
Perry did not impede the Legislature’s creation of a commission to strengthen the state’s use of forensic science. [read post]
20 Oct 2017, 9:45 am by David Aronberg
While the bill easily passed through the State House, it faltered in the State Senate. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 7:21 am by Bill Raftery
The Nebraska unicameral legislature’s Judiciary Committee meets December 5 for several interim studies, including LR 243: human trafficking in Nebraska in connection with labor and sex trafficking. [read post]
28 Oct 2008, 5:00 am
State Senator and State Representative Not all the races are contested – but this time in addition to uncontested Republicans in State Rep District 102 and 117, there’s an uncontested Democrat in 106. [read post]
1 Sep 2017, 7:12 am by Jim Sedor
In the first of two lawsuits brought by Democratic voters, three federal judges berated GOP leaders in 2012 for ‘‘flailing wildly in a desperate attempt to hide’’ their methods to assure Republican control of the state Legislature. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 12:18 pm by Melody McDonald Lanier
For example, if marijuana is decriminalized at the federal level, it may remain illegal at the state level – subject to what each state legislature does. [read post]
5 Jun 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
”Thus, to save Kansas’s widows and orphans from throwing their money away on securities backed by nothing more than “so many feet of blue sky,” in 1911 Dolley persuaded the state legislature to pass the first of what became known as “blue-sky laws. [read post]
8 Apr 2024, 11:45 am
• “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the2Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. [read post]
23 Jul 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Senate and gubernatorial races suffered from the same problem. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 6:25 am by Mandelman
The average cost of winning a seat in the state legislature in 2010, for instance, ranged from $711,000 in California to a remarkable $773 in New Hampshire. [read post]
2 Sep 2016, 6:50 am by Jim Sedor
State Auditor Nicole Galloway said the Senate should close a bank account used to solicit lobbyist donations to buy meals for lawmakers. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Chao’s aide Todd Inman, who stated in an email to McConnell’s Senate office that Chao had personally asked him to serve as an intermediary, helped advise the senator and local Kentucky officials on grants with special significance for McConnell, including a highway-improvement project in a McConnell political stronghold that had been twice rejected for previous grant applications. [read post]
2 Dec 2013, 4:43 am by Eugene Volokh
” The vote in the House was unanimous, and in the Senate was 97-3. [read post]
28 Jun 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
This dynamic, politically expedient in states where the industry wields tremendous influence, has combined with secretive drafting processes and millions of dollars of industry lobbying to weaken or defeat proposals in various states. [read post]
9 Sep 2012, 1:42 pm by Lawrence Solum
Similarly, a legislature might pass a “bill of rights” that purports to bind future legislatures, even in the absence of an institution of judicial review. [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
(If one takes some contemporary arguments seriously, then they were left to the autonomous choices of “independent state legislatures”!) [read post]