"We are not aware of any other case in which a state #legislature — faced w/ a #FederalCourtOrder declaring that its #electoral plan unlawfully dilutes minority votes & requiring a plan that provides an additional opportunity district — responded w/ a plan that the state concedes does not provide that #district,” said US Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus, & US District Judges Anna Manasco & Terry Moorer.

#Alabama #VRA

Pro tip: Absolutely nothing the #Tennessee #legislature does should surprise you, ever.

https://www.al.com/news/2023/08/families-from-nashville-school-where-6-died-in-shooting-removed-from-tennessee-special-session.html

Washington lawmaker apologizes for comments on education system

#apology #education #legislature #MohammedChoudhury #washingtonpost
https://usnewsper.com/2023/08/washington-lawmaker-apologizes-for-comments-on-education-system/?feed_id=27216&_unique_id=64e49760e4885

Washington lawmaker apologizes for comments on education system

#apology #education #legislature #MohammedChoudhury #washingtonpost
https://usnewsper.com/2023/08/washington-lawmaker-apologizes-for-comments-on-education-system/?feed_id=27144&_unique_id=64e48e1ec7ac8

#Georgia has one of the most capacious #RICO statutes in the country. The state’s #legislature enacted it specifically to “apply to an interrelated pattern of #criminal activity” & mandated courts to “liberally construe” it to protect the state & its citizens from harm. Under the #law, prosecutors can charge a sprawling #CriminalEnterprise & even include individuals who may not have known “of the others’ existence,” as one court put it.

#Trump #Indictment

Here’s a PR on compact info from #Oregon #legislature just passed:

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/264600

Just now remembered that the #california #legislature couldn’t get things together to figure out how to handle employee/employer #workerprivacy exemptions for #CCPA last year, so now employees can exercise #ccpa #privacy rights to the fullest extent as a consumer against their employer — and yet somehow the sky hasn’t fallen yet.

I was definitely told the sky would be falling by now. 🤷‍♂️

@keribla #police & #prosecutors lie regularly STOP voting for former prosecutors for political office there are too many in state #legislature the #senate & #congress

#Abortion Drives #Ohio Election on Amending the State Constitution

For more than a century, Ohio voters have been able to amend the State Constitution w/a simple majority vote.

That could end on Tues, bc the state’s #RepublicanControlled #Legislature has called for a special election that would raise the bar for amendments from a simple majority to 60%….

#AbortionRights #AbuseOfPower #SCOTUS #RoeVWade
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/us/ohio-special-election-legislature.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I can see some legitimate uses for local agencies communicating their needs to state legislators, but it certainly needs transparency and guardrails.

Also, #California needs to change how it numbers bills so they aren’t reused year to year, which seems to be gumming up, among other things, the lobbying transparency reporting. Prefixing them with the year could help, e.g. AB 23-294.

#lobbying #legislature #LocalGovernment #LegislativeAffairs

https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/08/california-cities-lobbying/

#DavidBerkowitz seemed to enjoy the notoriety afforded by his #crimes. He tried to #profit from them, which led the #NewYork #legislature to pass the first of its kind so-called #sonofsam #law designed to prevent #criminals from #legally profiting from their crimes. Other states have enacted similar laws.

#GOP-controlled #Iowa #legislature votes to #Ban #abortion after about 6 weeks

The #legislation was passed during a rare one-day special session called by Gov #KimReynolds (R) for the “sole purpose” of enacting new restrictions on #abortion. Reynolds celebrated the bill’s passage in a statement late Tues & said she will sign it on Fri. “Justice for the unborn should not be delayed,” she said.

#AbortionRights #AbortionIsHealthcare #AbortionIsEssential #ReproductiveRights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/11/iowa-abortion-ban-vote/

Y’all! The fight in #Louisiana has been intense and long. Just moments ago, the governor vetoed three anti-#trans / anti-#queer bills

#goodnews #legislature

The #NewYork State #Legislature gave final approval on Tues to #legislation that provides #legal protection for #NY #doctors to prescribe & send #abortion pills to patients in states that have outlawed abortion.

#AbortionRights #AbortionBans #HumanRights #Law #Legal
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/health/abortion-shield-law-new-york.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

by @thorbenson in @RawStory:

"Republicans in the Texas legislature recently passed two bills that will affect how elections will be run in the state’s largest county, Harris County — a Houston-centered Democratic stronghold. The first bill gets rid of Harris County’s elections administrator entirely, and the second allows the state’s Republican secretary of state to directly oversee elections in the county. These moves have been referred to as a Republican 'power grab' by Democrats in the state."

https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/as-long-as-possible-texas/

#Texas #HarrisCounty #Houston #legislature #VotingRights #elections #Republicans #Democrats #politics #USPolitics #USPol

Lopez: Growing will in Tallahassee to regulate e-bikes, electronic scooters :

#AlexisCalatyud #CrandonBoulevard #DrJoelRudman #ebike #escooter #JoeRasco #Legislature #RepCyndiStevenson #safety #SteveWilliamson #traffic #VickiLopez
#Miami #news

https://kbindependent.org/2023/06/09/lopez-growing-will-in-tallahassee-to-regulate-e-bikes-electronic-scooters/

@maxkennerly

Max,

from the #florida AG, the state senate, the state house of representatives, the state supreme court, all the way down to the county sheriff, there is no one in our state in a position of authority who is not in lockstep with #desantis.

Hell, #tfg is still #sloshing around the #swamp here.

I believe the #legislature approved the funds desantis is using to do idiotic crap like this. So nothing is going to happen.

#fascist #gop

Somehow missed this one yesterday… 🤦🏽‍♂️

🇳🇫 #TAIWAN: ❝#Solar_panel mandate to pass #legislature❞
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2023/05/29/2003800619

Direct From Today's No Shit Department:

With hundreds of Texans dying every year from gun violence, with the number of mass killings and mass shootings significantly higher than most states in the country, with little children under age 6 among the dead in 3 recent mass murders, you would think the #Texas #legislature and the governor would be trying to pass at least some law that would help protect innocent people from the murderers among them. You would be wrong."

https://www.salon.com/2023/05/27/texas-keeps-on-burying-kids-from-violence--while-fight-among-themselves/

#Gerrymandered #Ohio Statehouse gives #voters no recourse through initiated statute, only #constitution
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/05/18/gerrymandered-ohio-statehouse-gives-voters-no-recourse-through-initiated-statute-only-constitution/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=e38af91b-9358-4414-a93e-52cbf0f75116
Citizens could work tirelessly to pass an initiated #statute that the rigged Ohio #legislature could then simply overturn