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5 Aug 2024, 9:14 pm
Based on their voting records between 2021 and 2023, when the Senate was last evenly divided, and fresh off a successful 2024 reelection campaign, Montana Senator Jon Tester, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin, and Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen would be highly likely to join the rest of their party. [read post]
5 Aug 2024, 1:06 pm
This was the same year that the Florida legislature passed House Bill 0657 and Senate Bill 0766 which authorized local jurisdictions to implement and operate school zone speed detection systems and school bus passing infraction detection systems. [read post]
5 Aug 2024, 11:52 am
It also required states to send their certified results to “the President of the Senate [and] the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted. [read post]
5 Aug 2024, 6:30 am
When Maria’s father, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, presented the Constitution to the South Carolina legislature on January 17, 1788, he did so in a context in which the threat of abolition was taken seriously. [read post]
2 Aug 2024, 11:29 am
California is one of the nation’s few full-time state legislatures. [read post]
2 Aug 2024, 6:30 am
Senator Hayne asserted that the Constitution rested on a compact of sovereign states. [read post]
2 Aug 2024, 3:00 am
Justin Heap, an attorney aligned with the state Legislature’s ultraconservative Freedom Caucus [read post]
1 Aug 2024, 2:23 pm
The Legislature also approved a $42.1 billion state operating budget to fund executive department operations.[1] The Legislature also enacted several new laws affecting energy production and environment regulation. [read post]
1 Aug 2024, 8:57 am
Senior Policy Counsel at the ACLU Jenna Leventoff stated: As state legislatures and school boards across the country impose book bans and classroom censorship laws, the last thing students need is another act of government censorship deciding which educational resources are appropriate for their families. [read post]
30 Jul 2024, 9:01 pm
Thus, Senate and House elections in non-swing states may be critical to the outcome of the Presidential race, as well as important in their own right.Meanwhile, those state elections also bear watching. [read post]
30 Jul 2024, 10:51 am
(Senator Cory Booker or New Jersey is the notable exception.) [read post]
29 Jul 2024, 9:45 am
With the House under Republican control, while Democrats control the Senate, the proposal would require a two-thirds majority vote in both the House and Senate or a constitutional convention requested by 34 states, requiring 38 state legislatures to approve it. [read post]
28 Jul 2024, 9:01 pm
”But the Racial Justice Act has not solved California’s race problem.In 2021, the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code, a seven-member board formed by the state legislature to propose criminal justice reforms recommended that capital punishment be abolished in the state. [read post]
28 Jul 2024, 7:56 pm
Even if Democrats keep the Senate and retake the House, does anyone seriously believe they would unite behind a plan to sideline the state legislatures (we have certainly seen Democrats refuse to back controversial procedural changes). [read post]
28 Jul 2024, 6:00 am
For example, the Constitution specifies that each state has two Senators: in practice, this provision is fully determinate: issues concerning this provision are in the interpretation zone. [read post]
28 Jul 2024, 5:30 am
I am directing my Administration to work with the bill’s author and the Legislature next year to address these issues. [read post]
28 Jul 2024, 5:30 am
I am directing my Administration to work with the bill’s author and the Legislature next year to address these issues. [read post]
26 Jul 2024, 3:00 am
Ethics Commissions: Obliging government to control itself National Conference of State Legislatures – Helen Brewer and Adam Kuckuk | Published: 7/23/2024 Government makes rules for the people, but who makes the rules for the government? [read post]
25 Jul 2024, 7:55 am
I’ll unpack the numbers, but this graph from Penn State tells the story. [read post]
25 Jul 2024, 6:30 am
In particular, state legislatures were known to instruct U.S. senators from their states to vote a particular way in Washington, most famously during debates over the Wilmot Proviso. [read post]
