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27 Oct 2020, 7:54 am
It is pending reconsideration after the Missouri state legislature passed an emergency law expanding the availability of absentee balloting. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 3:54 am
This sentencing structure has been in place for 224 years, but under a bill recently approved by the state legislature, Virginia is expected to turn sentencing over to judges, joining the vast majority of states around the country. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 7:46 am
Texas explicitly makes it a felony to collect ballots “with intent to defraud the voter or the election authority. [read post]
20 Oct 2020, 9:03 pm
Oregon In May 2019, the Oregon legislature adopted a modified gross receipts tax, imposed at $250 plus a rate of 0.57 percent on Oregon gross receipts above $1 million. [read post]
20 Oct 2020, 5:50 pm
Founding-era legislatures did not strip felons of the right to bear arms simply because of their status as felons. [read post]
19 Oct 2020, 11:33 am
The Texas Supreme Court explained that “[c]onstruing the TCPA liberally means construing its exemptions narrowly,” in part because of “the legislature’s clear instruction to construe the TCPA liberally to protect citizens’ rights to participate in government. [read post]
18 Oct 2020, 5:58 pm
Wisconsin State Legislature, the Democratic National Committee and two other sets of plaintiffs filed emergency motions in the U.S. [read post]
16 Oct 2020, 12:30 pm
" Texas passes a law requiring doctors to first "ensure fetal demise" in utero. [read post]
16 Oct 2020, 3:00 am
But the ruling increased the chances of the administration retaining control of the process that decides how many congressional seats each state gets, and by extension how much voting power each state has. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 8:11 am
Deeley sent a letter to the state legislature, urging it to take immediate action in response to the court decision. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 9:40 am
We sued and and helped ensure that five of these 16 states expanded vote-by-mail eligibility to all voters for the general election: Missouri: In May, citing a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and the ACLU of Missouri, the Missouri legislature expanded access to vote by mail to all voters during 2020 due to COVID-19, and eliminated the state’s notary requirement for high-risk voters. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
Texas focuses on “standing. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 2:30 pm
Criminal Prosecution for Drunk Driving Fatality: DWI Charges Of course, driving while intoxicated (DWI) is a crime in the State of Texas. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
The Constitution clearly assigns to state legislatures the nearly plenary power to “appoint” electors; many state legislatures at the outset of the United States simply appointed the electors themselves without the bother of requiring an election at all, though this hasn’t been done since Colorado did in it 1876. [read post]
11 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
The first will, in almost all states (save Maine and Nebraska) award the entirety of the state’s electors to the hegemons’ favorite candidate. [read post]
10 Oct 2020, 1:55 pm
Texas In Texas v. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 1:31 pm
Wisconsin Supreme Court (October 6): No; the Wisconsin legislature can indeed defend the state's laws in court. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
As Keyssar observes of the failure of the proportionalist Lodge-Gossett reform of 1950 (led by the liberal Republican senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and the Texas segregationist representative Ed Lee Gossett): “an institutional reform that, in itself, had long been regarded as democratic, might well have anti-democratic consequences in a nation containing a large region that lacked universal suffrage” (164). [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 3:00 am
” From the States and Municipalities Alaska – An Initiative Proposes to Overhaul Alaska’s Elections. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 10:34 am
The Texas Supreme Court blocked a Texas city Wednesday from mailing unsolicited mail-in-ballots to its residents ahead of the November presidential election. [read post]
