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6 Feb 2022, 10:00 pm
The California State Legislature Assembly Bill 84, introduced on February 2, proposes to require employers with 26 or more employees to provide up to 80 hours of supplemental paid sick leave for qualifying COVID-19 related reasons. [read post]
6 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
And while Utah has not carried out many executions in recent years, Ohio has carried out 56 since 1976.Last July, two Republicans, long-time death penalty supporters, introduced bills in the Ohio House and Senate to end capital punishment in that state. [read post]
As of Friday, the bill has passed through the Rules and Administration Committee of the Idaho Legislature with a “Do Pass” recommendation, and the Chief Clerk of the Idaho Representatives has been “authorized and directed” to forward a copy of the bill to the senate president and the speaker of the house at the federal level as well as to the congressional delegation representing the state of Idaho. [read post]
6 Feb 2022, 1:19 pm by Ilya Somin
The greatest risk to American democracy in current times is indeed that lies about voter fraud or other asserted "legal irregularities" will enable the Republican presidential candidate in 2024—whether Trump or someone similarly anti-democratic—to steal the election through politicized state election officials who manipulate vote counting, or through Republican-led state legislatures that reject the popular vote in their states and submit… [read post]
5 Feb 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  The greatest risk to American democracy in current times is indeed that lies about voter fraud or other asserted “legal irregularities” will enable the Republican presidential candidate in 2024—whether Trump or someone similarly anti-democratic—to steal the election through politicized state election officials who manipulate vote counting, or through Republican-led state legislatures that reject the popular vote in their states and… [read post]
The bill suggests delegating power to the FCC and state attorneys general to enforce violations. [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 7:01 am by Edward B. Foley
  How can we be sure that a state’s legislature lacks this power? [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Democrats’ Election Reform Bill Failed in the Senate. [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 12:08 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  Waldman offered this "series of events that could end partisan gerrymandering for Congress altogether:Democrats have a surprisingly good year at the ballot box, holding on to their House majority thanks to the gerrymandering they’ve managed, while increasing their Senate majority by at least two votes.With Sens. [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 10:54 am by Joe Mullin
Regardless of whether state legislatures take their lead from that commission, or from the bill’s sponsors themselves, we know where the road will end. [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 9:26 am by Jonathan Azzara
Public school employees may no longer be required to live in the State of New Jersey during a three-year trial period thanks to bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senate Republican Leader Steve Oroho and approved today by the Senate Education Committee. [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 7:41 am by Amy Howe
A move to the state bench In 2006, Childs was elected by the state’s legislature to serve as a circuit court judge in Columbia; she was reelected in 2009. [read post]
However, State Senator Paul Lundeen wanted to see more changes to the CPA, including revisiting the types of exemptions the law provides. [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Katrina Robinson from Legislature, a First for the Chamber Since at Least the Civil War” by Melissa Brown (Memphis Commercial Appeal) for MSN Legislative Issues National: “Luján Stroke Sends Senate Democrats Reeling” by Marianne LeVine and Burgess Everett (Politico) for Yahoo News Alaska: “Alaska House Coalition Will Seek to Remove Rep. [read post]
2 Feb 2022, 10:08 am by Robbie Kenney
Johns Hopkins Study Shows Lockdowns Were Useless A recent Johns Hopkins University analysis found that COVID lockdowns have been virtually useless, and State Senator Joe Pennacchio said the new revelations are further proof Governor Phil Murphy’s refusal to include the Legislature in pandemic decision-making was a mistake. [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 9:19 pm by Josh Blackman
The jurisdictional element specifies which positions are subject to Section 3: a "person . . . who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States. [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 7:30 am by Amy Howe
Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit allowed the law to take effect, reasoning that the state legislature was “making every effort to restrict as little speech as possible while combating the deleterious secondary effects of anti-abortion protests. [read post]
California’s New Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Proposal On January 25, Governor Newsom, along with Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. [read post]