Most State Legislatures Have Rejected Bans and Severe ...

Routine Disqualification: Every State Has Kept Ineligible Candidates…

All 50 states and the District of Columbia have excluded candidates who do not meet requirements to appear on the ballot, and excluding ...

Locked Out 2022: Estimates of People Denied Voting Rights

Alabama had the nation's highest rate of disenfranchisement at just under 5 percent, but no state disenfranchised more than 5 percent of its ...

Where do US states stand on abortion bans ahead of new Trump ...

Some U.S. states have voted to bolster abortion rights but Trump win dims activists' hopes for a federal bill to protect access.

Gender divide prominent as male-dominated legislatures debate ...

A stark gender divide has emerged in debates unfolding in Republican-led states including West Virginia, Indiana and South Carolina ...

Public Nuisance Law when Politics Fails

The courts have generally rejected such suits, directing litigants back to the very legislatures and agencies that allowed the problems to fester in the first ...

Women, doctors announce legal action against abortion bans in 3 ...

Women in Tennessee, Idaho and Oklahoma announced lawsuits against states' abortion bans, claiming they were denied ... state Legislature has ...

The Best and Worst States to Be a Woman

“We have many women in government at both state and local levels. Community ... state's women legislators are white, and Black women in the state earn ...

18-422 Rucho v. Common Cause (06/27/2019) - Supreme Court

“[T]he State Legislatures will sometimes fail or refuse to consult the ... Whenever the. State Legislatures had a favorite measure to carry,.

Amendment 4 is rejected by Florida voters, keeping state's 6-week ...

... has been rejected ... More than a dozen states have since enacted near-total bans on abortion, while it is severely restricted in other states.

one year later: - a look at sb 1070 and copycat legislation - UnidosUS

However, many states are still in session and some, ... kansas and New Hampshire, nearly a dozen state legislatures have rejected SB 1070 copycats ...

Data show anti-union 'right-to-work' laws damage state economies

Unionization has declined far more sharply in the states that ... states need to address chronic economic problems of widening ...

Prohibited Employment Policies/Practices

Although the law does not prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal if it is so frequent ...

Debunking the Independent State Legislature Fantasy

But I would say that if they go as the most extreme route, the ... Why Did Trump Get Denied Immunity? 31:33. S5:E19. Does the ...

Snapshot: LGBTQ Equality by State - Movement Advancement Project

In other words, these scores are an excellent measure of the current LGBTQ policy landscape across a wide range of issues, but the scores do not necessarily ...

Gun Law Trendwatch 2024 | GIFFORDS

Legislative sessions have begun in most states, and gun violence prevention bills are already on the move across the country. For the Virginia legislature, 2024 ...

Iowa is about to ban its public universities from expressing ideas

Kim Reynolds must veto the nation's most extreme ban on DEI and expression ... states have rejected it. If not vetoed or halted by the courts, the ...

STATE REJECTION OF FEDERAL LAW

more sharply than the legislative reform did, including by banning the use ... By documenting many ways in which state law has rejected federal ...

The Most Egregious Election Bills That Republicans Introduced This ...

... , Republican state lawmakers have channeled this approach to craft legislation banning voting machines, school polling locations and more.

Republican States Draft Bills to Ban or Criminalize Abortion | TIME

While the Louisiana bill is more extreme than most other states ... In Ohio, where the state legislature remains in session, state legislators are ...

America's Censored Classrooms 2023

During the 2023 state legislative sessions, 110 bills that PEN America defines as educational gag orders were introduced, and 10 became law.