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23 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Two Native American tribes, the Cherokee and the Choctaw, are both granted the right to send delegates to the House of Representatives. [read post]
16 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal At Def Con, Hackers and Lawmakers Came Together to Examine Holes in Election Security Seattle Times – Taylor Telford (Washington Post) | Published: 8/12/2019 Hackers came had come to the DefCon computer security conference for a chance to probe voting machines used in U.S. elections. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
House Democrats File Lawsuit to Enforce Subpoena Against McGahn The Hill – Olivia Beavers, Jacqueline Thomsen, and Morgan Chalfant | Published: 8/7/2019 House Judiciary Committee Chairperson Jerrold Nadler filed a civil lawsuit to enforce a subpoena for testimony from Don McGahn, the former White House counsel who at the Trump administration’s direction defied lawmakers’ request to appear before the committee. [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Republicans argue the guidance was important to protect taxpayers’ privacy and First Amendment rights. [read post]
19 Jul 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Democrats investigating the issue believe the documents and testimony being shielded would confirm the administration’s long-stated rationale for collecting the data, to better enforce the Voting Rights Act, was merely a cover for a politically motivated attempt to eliminate noncitizens from population statistics used to allocate political representation, diminishing Democratic power. [read post]
12 Jul 2019, 10:02 am by Michael Lowe
Benjamin Barber, who is litigating an analogous bill in the State of Oregon (ORS 163.472) entitled “Unlawful Dissemination of an Intimate Image”, specifically to rebut arguments made by the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative in its amicus brief regarding differin [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 12:40 pm
In order to allow the Drafting Team to digest what we hope will be a large number of comments in time for the publication of the Rules on 10 December, the consultation will close on 25 August 2019. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Beltway ‘Inundated’ with Fundraisers as Deadline Nears Roll Call – Kate Ackley | Published: 6/25/2019 The subject line of a recent email solicitation from U.S. [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 8:24 pm
  Zheng is right to note the way that it has permeated Chinese thinking from the start of the post Qing period. [read post]
21 Jun 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Civil rights groups who had sued the government over its addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census had asked Hazel to reconsider his ruling on whether the government was guilty of conspiracy and intent to discriminate after new evidence in the case emerged in May. [read post]
17 Jun 2019, 2:58 am by Walter Olson
Grand Rapids may find out [Scott Greenfield] Courts and EEOC have held that the federal ban on pregnancy discrimination encompasses a ban on discrimination related to abortion [Jon Hyman] Legislative proposal in Ohio, fortunately given little chance of passage, would make anti-vaxxers a protected group under state employment discrimination law [same] “Finally Some Robust Research Into Whether ‘Diversity Training’ Actually Works – Unfortunately It’s Not Very… [read post]
24 May 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Critics of the ban have said allowing it to extend into state and local political contests intrudes on the right of states and municipalities to control their own electoral processes. [read post]
1 May 2019, 11:01 am by Joe Consumer
Many judges and scholars have written eloquently in defense of the civil jury, warning against even limited intrusions into the right to civil jury trial. [read post]
1 May 2019, 11:01 am by Joe Consumer
Many judges and scholars have written eloquently in defense of the civil jury, warning against even limited intrusions into the right to civil jury trial. [read post]
11 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
There has not been an enforcement action for an LDA violation in four years, and since the law was enacted in 1995, there have been a total of nine civil enforcement actions. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 11:31 am by Rebecca Tushnet
There are so many things that have to go right for a counternotice to be filed in the first place—the user has to know their rights and be willing to take the risk. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
The FEC fined APIC $550,000 and Right to Rise $390,000. [read post]