Most of these proposals have not been passed and enacted, the report found, but several states with Republican-led legislatures have succeeded in getting them across the finish line. State immigration laws Late last year, the Texas legislature passed an unprecedented law known as SB4 that empower...
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and Northern domination of the House of Representatives revealed to Southerners their status as a political minority. The South became increasingly preoccupied with the need to defend its social and economic institutions by preserving an equal balance of free and slave states in the Senate. While th...
shares the achievements of her stateside counterparts. like others, leon guerrero began her political career as a legislator, serving multiple terms in the territory’s legislature. throughout her two years as the island’s first female governor ,...
Hunter Biden has appeared on Capitol Hill for a defiant closed-door deposition with lawmakers. He blasted the Republican impeachment inquiry into his father and the family’s business affairs as a “house of cards” built on “lies” as he faced a battery of probing questions. February 29 Bri...
Nixon after being renominated at the 1956 Republican National Convention in San Francisco.(more) The convention system was unaltered until the beginning of the 20th century, when general disaffection with elitism led to the growth of the Progressive movement and the introduction in some states of ...
By the way, House Republicans also behaved recklessly, with an even-greater percentage of them voting for this giveaway. Trump also could have told them to vote no and they presumably would have obeyed. The bottom line is that America’s grim fiscal outlook got worse during Trump’s first ...
In some swing states with Republican-led legislatures, such as Michigan and Wisconsin, "arguably gerrymandering really is the primary reason that abortion is likely to be illegal," said Chris Warshaw, a political scientist at George Washington University who analyzes redistrict...
for states where both the state legislature and the Governor's office are Republican. Data come from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL, 2019) for each state. Eighty percent of states without a moratorium have unified Republican control, compared to 60% of states with a morator...
In Pennsylvania, which allows no direct access to the ballot for citizen initiatives, the earliest the Republican-controlled Legislature could put its election changes on the ballot — through a proposed constitutional amendment — is 2023.