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29 Mar 2024, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The Office of Disciplinary Counsel alleged Clark engaged in dishonest conduct when he drafted a letter he wanted the Justice Department to send to Georgia officials, demanding the state Legislature call a special session to examine votes in the presidential election. [read post]
28 Mar 2024, 4:53 am by jonathanturley
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has blocked border enforcement by the state under Texas’s SB 4. [read post]
” The law was enacted in January after the state legislature overrode Governor Mike DeWine’s veto of the bill. [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 5:16 am by Daniel M. Kowalski
Texas "In an effort to stem the tide of illegal immigration into Texas, the state legislature passed a bill known as S. [read post]
25 Mar 2024, 9:32 am by Ilya Somin
The Guarantee Clause of Article IV of the Constitution states that the federal government must protect the states "against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. [read post]
22 Mar 2024, 9:53 am by Scott Bomboy
In a second case, a federal judge in December 2023 upheld a TikTok ban in Texas that applies to state-issued devices and state networks, including public universities. [read post]
22 Mar 2024, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The state judge who barred him from office did so on the grounds his actions violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. [read post]
21 Mar 2024, 9:13 am by Jose Medina
Take the 2023 regular session of the Texas Legislature when the industry opposed Republican-led legislation that put some modest controls on miners. [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Rather, the case arose because Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Republican-dominated Texas legislature pursued a radical policy premised on the notion that a state could decide for itself that the federal government was not doing enough to enforce federal law and assume responsibility for that fundamentally federal function even in the teeth of opposition from the national executive. [read post]
She has sent the National Guard from Iowa to assist in Texas Governor Abbott’s state immigration enforcement. [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 12:56 pm by Ryan Scoville
If nonbinding MOUs are preemptable, then the same may be true of all other nonbinding but official state acts, including single-chamber and concurrent resolutions from state legislatures and various forms of official statements from state executives. [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 1:41 pm by David Kopel
It is preposterous for a legislature to claim (falsely) that these rifles are "weapons of war," are useless for self-defense, and are made only for mass killing. [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 6:00 am by Sherica Celine
While change in U.S. privacy law at the federal level continues to remain a possibility, state legislatures continue to be at the forefront of new privacy regulations. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 10:58 am by Kevin LaCroix
(SpaceX, also a Musk company, has in fact already reincorporated in Texas.) [read post]
16 Mar 2024, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
That would make it one of America’s most populous states, its 20 million inhabitants, on par with Florida and New York and surpassed only by Texas (30 million) and California (40 million). [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 1:45 pm by Michael Lowe
Here are how things stand right now for the controversial Texas Senate Bill 4 (88-4) (“SB4”), which was passed last fall by both houses of the Texas Legislature and signed into law by Governor Abbott. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 9:24 am by Heather L. Weaver
A 2023 Texas law allowing public schools to hire chaplains, or accept them as volunteers, to provide student support services has inspired more states to consider copycat legislation. [read post]