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3 Nov 2022, 7:18 am
” On June 16, 2022, the Legislature passed ACR-149, which approved the original FY2023 financial plan of the NJIB. [read post]
3 Nov 2022, 3:14 am
In the first session, the amendment must pass by a majority vote in the State House and a 2/3 vote in the State Senate. [read post]
1 Nov 2022, 9:04 pm
Prehn, the defendant, a member of an independent agency, refused to leave office after his term expired, and the Republican state senate would not confirm his successor. [read post]
1 Nov 2022, 9:09 am
In the first session, the amendment must pass by a majority vote in the State House and a 2/3 vote in the State Senate. [read post]
30 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
” The words “as the legislature may direct” give state legislatures the power to determine the procedures for a special election, but do not apply to the governor’s discretion to appoint or not appoint. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 5:55 am
As a refresher, the ISL theory contends that state legislatures may regulate federal elections free of any checks by other state-level actors. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 5:13 am
I know diddly squat about Pennsylvania politics, but apparently a simple majority in the state House would be enough to impeach, while a two-thirds majority in the state Senate would be needed to remove Krasner from office. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 4:00 am
The secretary of state said her office has received six cases of potential voter intimidation to the state attorney general and the U.S. [read post]
27 Oct 2022, 9:50 am
Article I, section 4 reads as follows: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators. [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 6:22 pm
“20 Democratic Senators Ask Supreme Court to Reject Once-Fringe Theory in Elections Case; The so-called independent state legislature theory is at the center of a Supreme Court case involving electoral maps in North Carolina; The theory runs afoul of normal checks and balances, the senators wrote”: Nick Corasaniti of The New York Times has this report. [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 4:00 am
American democracy is under threat from a frighteningly large number of sources, including from the insurrection of January 6th and the possibility of similar violent uprisings in the future; the hyper-partisan gerrymandering of legislative districts; and the moves by some state legislatures both to restrict the right to vote, as a means of addressing spurious claims of voting fraud, and to increase the risk that raw partisanship will bleed into the process of counting votes. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 9:03 pm
The California legislature, for example, attempted to expand boardroom diversity requirements for corporations with principal executive offices located in the state. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 4:30 pm
Democrats proposed 21 days of pre-canvassing in their own election reform package, but Republicans control both the State House and the State Senate. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 3:57 pm
This time we are discussing California Senate Bill 1162, dubbed California’s Pay Transparency Law (“SB 1162”). [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 10:46 am
In 2017, the New Jersey Legislature passed, and then-Governor Chris Christie was signed, legislation directing the State’s executive officials to effect New Jersey’s unilateral withdrawal from the Waterfront Compact and providing for the Commission’s subsequent dissolution. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 6:30 am
New York: [The Constitution] is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of our finding certain opinions natural and familiar, or novel, and even shocking, ought not to conclude our judgment upon the question whether statutes embodying them conflict with the Constitution of the United States…. [read post]
24 Oct 2022, 9:04 pm
The legislature found that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed chronic labor issues in the state. [read post]
22 Oct 2022, 1:46 pm
By Jon Campbell and Brigid Bergin In her 28-page ruling, Freestone said she believes a law allowing anyone to vote absentee if they’re fearful of spreading an illness — a provision approved by the state Legislature in August 2020 and extended in January of this year — is also unconstitutional. [read post]
21 Oct 2022, 7:38 am
In the most recent version of the pending bill, A1474, the Legislature states several findings related to temporary workers and their working conditions. [read post]
20 Oct 2022, 8:35 am
Ed often lectures or testifies before Congress, state legislatures, and agencies on a wide range of consumer protection and competition issues, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and has been involved in all of significant FCRI policy amendments since 1989. [read post]
