WOW. The California Senate just voted to approved, by 2/3 vote, SB1327, Sen. Glazers bill to provide $500 million for local news, paid for by a tax on the big tech companies. Huge breakthrough.
Good Governing by Daniel B. Rodriguez - @DBRodriguez5
Explores the origins and functions of state police power and its connection to state constitutionalism and government regulation.
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Were plaintiffs barking up the wrong tree? Thanks to S. Vladeck—for state con law + civil pro buffs—can a case be returned to state court after removal to federal court if plaintiff removes claims that are the basis for removal? SCOTUS to review 8th Cir. https://t.co/Pq4lzjLH4Y
Thought-provoking symposium showed state constitutions are a pivotal locus of civil & political rights in a federalist system. Originalists take note, dual sovereignty means states can interpret their own constitutions based on history, tradition and maybe, persuasive counsel
Miriam Seifter & Michael Kang,
both SLoG editors/contributors are panelists. Managing editor is a moderator. Hear about judicial federalism, interpretive methods, democracy in state con law, access to justice, reproductive freedom & more. State constitutionalism is a hot topic!
Excited to be part of new Brennan Center symposium on the Promise and Limits of State Constitutionalism with Justice Halligan, Justice Liu, Former Chief Justice of Texas Wallace Jefferson, former Chief Justice of Ohio Maureen O’Connor, and more Justices and profs!
📢Just published: @WisLRev Special Issue on Public Law in the States! https://t.co/0pzLB2IUA4 This Issue grew out of our 3rd Annual Conference on Public Law in the States and features essays on state public law and state courts. 1/
Consumer owned power failed in a ballot initiative in Maine yesterday, after IOU outspent consumer advocates by a large margin. A blow to energy democracy. https://t.co/te5mbt1TZS
What are we concerned about this election day? We are thinking at the precinct level, with concerns that election observers do no more than that, observe. Intimidation and brandishing have no place at the polls. See something, say something.
Along with Swan’s Picks for the week, here are some suggestions from Gregory Shill on how to use lower cost second best interventions to get quick wins on transportation policy. https://t.co/p3ksW6ZRiS
We have said it before: small town papers are the bulwark of local democracy in many parts of the country. If that’s where you are, read your local paper, support it, and respond to its asks for small dollar
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An entire small-town police department in Kansas raided a newspaper's offices and its reporters' homes because the paper got a tip about a well-connected person's DUI
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Smart predictions on today’s big decision in Moore v Harper by @kateashaw1@LeahLitman@rickhasen and TBH, us
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Yes to mini-Marbury v. Madisons in the states, and specifically North Carolina.
BREAKING: By a 6-3 vote Supreme Court rejects Independent State Legislature Theory in Moore v. Harper, affirms power of judicial review of state legislative actions by state supreme courts https://t.co/KrNwMKU3w7