State legislatures also use the data to apportion their own legislatures.
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"We at the state legislatures, especially Republican-controlled legislatures, have a responsibility to kind of reload," Republican state Sen.
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In 2009, according to the National Council of State Legislatures, there were 4,3.63 Democrats serving in state legislatures and 3,223 Republicans.
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And Republicans had outright control of 24 state legislatures at the start of 2018, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Some 27 state legislatures in 2016 had formal policies for legislative employees on sexual harassment, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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"You can't trust legislatures to protect anybody's rights that aren't white and male, because that's not how legislatures are made up," she said.
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According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Republicans currently have full control over 30 of the 49 partisan legislatures in the country.
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About 37 state legislatures in 2016 had formal policies for legislative employees on sexual harassment, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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"We at the state legislatures, especially Republican-controlled legislatures, have a responsibility to kind of reload," Bertrand added to the New York Times.
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Women in state legislatures are more likely to be Democratic than Republican: There are 2023,109 Democratic women in state legislatures, compared with 704 Republicans.
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Second, many state legislatures draw US congressional maps every 10 years, and Republican legislatures are the root cause of gerrymandered districts in some states.
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The delegates, expecting the support of the solidly Republican state legislatures that had called the convention, would know they needed some split legislatures for ratification.
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The constitutional change behind the bill needed the approval of 17 state legislatures, which was easily achieved given that most state legislatures are controlled by MORENA.
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Roughly 130 other bills on felon voting rights are winding their way through 30 state legislatures, staff members of the National Conference of State Legislatures said.
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"We at the state legislatures, especially Republican-controlled legislatures, have a responsibility to kind of reload," said State Senator Rick Bertrand, a Republican from Sioux City.
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State legislatures appoint the members of the upper chamber, and the B.J.P. is already trying to topple legislatures in a few states that have narrow anti-B.
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Under this idea, state legislatures have agreed that if enough other state legislatures agree, they will give their state's electoral votes to the national popular vote winner.
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In anticipation of a decision overturning PASPA, lobbyists have been flooding individual state legislatures for several months and encouraging legislatures to legalize sports gambling and "daily fantasy sports" (DFS).
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The number of Democratic women in legislatures will grow by at least 22019 seats in the new year, while the number of Republican women who serve in legislatures will decline.
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Over the past decade, Southern legislatures have passed laws requiring approval from state legislatures before any historical monuments can be moved, removed, or altered — thereby freezing those private decisions in place.
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The Constitution, they wrote, contemplated a role for politics in redistricting by assigning the task to state legislatures, adding that federal courts have no role to play in supervising the legislatures' judgments.
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As few as 52 women between the ages of 18 and 35 serve in state legislatures, according to one recent analysis by Karl Kurtz, a consultant for the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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The Senate bill would cut legislatures out of the equation.
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This balancing has traditionally been done by legislatures, not courts.
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The manner of choosing electors was left to state legislatures.
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It is among the most open legislatures in the world.
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We think legislatures should allow but tightly regulate face identification.
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Now, under Trump, state legislatures' powers will likely only metastasize.
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Legislatures in most states elected U.S. senators at the time.
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It's a level above state legislatures, and can't be limited.
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Now, other state legislatures are trying to do the same.
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It has happened everywhere from IHOP restaurants to state legislatures.
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All told, Democrats surrendered about 30 seats in state legislatures.
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Only state legislatures can petition Congress to create new states.
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The Legislatures in Connecticut and Massachusetts are also weighing $15.
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The laws are defined by state courts and state legislatures.
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They argue that deference to legislatures amounts to dangerous majoritarianism.
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They lost control of legislatures and governorships around the nation.
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Some legislatures are split between Republicans and Democrats, forcing compromise.
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Rather, it would have returned the issue to state legislatures.
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State legislatures, too, have had a surge in Republican control.
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It is still awaiting ratification by the three countries' legislatures.
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But they both could face stiff headwinds from their legislatures.
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Even the vocabulary state legislatures and election boards use fluctuates.
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Abortion access would be determined by state legislatures and governors.
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Special elections could help switch party control of state legislatures.
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All data courtesy of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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L.G.B.T. people of color won several seats in state legislatures.
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It's what they did in state legislatures around the country.
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Many more are running for state legislatures and local offices.
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State legislatures can and should pass laws requiring these disclosures.
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The party has control of the legislatures of another six.
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This is where parental lobbying of legislatures yielded real dividends.
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In most states, legislatures would have to approve the proposal.
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Their state legislatures have repeatedly refused to expand the program.
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It depends, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Legislatures also must act to ensure those standards apply broadly.
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Connecticut and Rhode Island also could legalize through their legislatures.
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Even legislatures when trying to regulate disclosure have missed them.
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The party has seats in 13 of 16 state legislatures.
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Do protesters have important allies in Congress and state legislatures?
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"We need to build a bench to take state legislatures."
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I don't need to tell governors and state legislatures that.
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It says, "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors…" State legislatures — and only state legislatures — are empowered to choose the method of awarding electors.
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At least nine states could reach gender parity in their legislatures this fall, and some estimates are showing that women's representation in state legislatures could skyrocket from 23% to 38% in this single election cycle.
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In fact, at least 214 bills that would somehow restrict abortion have already been pre-filed or introduced in state legislatures, according to the Guttmacher Institute — even though most legislatures are shut down until 22012.
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In fact, at least 17 bills that would somehow restrict abortion have already been pre-filed or introduced in state legislatures, according to the Guttmacher Institute — even though most legislatures are shut down until 2019.
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After the Supreme Court required states to reapportion their legislatures in the 85033s, for example, 33 of the necessary 34 state legislatures filed applications demanding a convention to propose an amendment reversing the court's rulings.
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Republican-led state legislatures in Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina have imposed similar policies on public colleges and universities, and bills to establish campus speech guidelines are under consideration in at least seven other legislatures.
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Crucially, state legislatures will redraw US congressional district boundaries in 2021.
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Many state legislatures responded by passing their own state-level RFRAs.
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Be smart: State legislatures can be controlled by the minority party.
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State politics and state legislatures move slower than the sex industry.
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Wade, our rights are already under siege thanks to state legislatures.
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The latter turns legislatures into funhouse mirrors of the people's will.
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The GOP even has veto-proof supermajorities in 17 state legislatures.
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This federal bill is a model for state legislatures to adopt.
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Legislatures in 24 other states are considering similar bills this year.
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It would function just like most democratic legislatures around the world.
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Courts and legislatures around the country increasingly take the same view.
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Pierluisi waited in Puerto Rico's Senate on Thursday to address legislatures.
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Flippable's mission is to flip state legislatures from red to blue.
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With gridlock in Washington, state legislatures are becoming engines of policy.
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Gerrymandering is so extreme that our legislatures are no longer democratic.
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Without women in state legislatures, there's no bench to pull from.
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During Barack Obama's presidency, Democrats lost 970 seats in state legislatures.
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Scott and dozens of Republican state legislatures love this felon situation.
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Treaties are generally signed by governments and then ratified by legislatures.
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Democrats also gained sizeable margins in state legislatures across the country.
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So far only congressional proposals have been submitted to state legislatures.
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The practice is also rampant in state legislatures across the country.
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State legislatures cannot violate the First Amendment rights of Republican delegates.
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Legislatures and school districts have proven, affordable options at their disposal.
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Pushed from below, legislatures in Virginia and New Hampshire approved reforms.
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They sit in 33 governor's mansions and control 32 state legislatures.
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Wade or by other restrictive laws already passed by state legislatures.
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Since November, anti-porn bills and resolutions have flooded state legislatures.
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The last time state legislatures were so unified, it was 1914.
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Over the next three decades, many legislatures rescinded their convention calls.
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Many Republican-led legislatures have sought to toughen voter identification laws.
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G.B.T. bills had been put forward in state legislatures since 2016.
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But these legislatures have fiercely resisted efforts to raise any taxes.
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Such questions have not been definitively resolved by courts or legislatures.
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Abortion foes in state legislatures seem awfully sure of themselves lately.
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Legislatures across the planet have been having similar changes of heart.
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Both of those lawsuits challenge political maps drawn by Republican legislatures.
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Republican legislatures need to keep their hands off of women's bodies.
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But the increasing diversity of state legislatures reveals the potential rewards.
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In term-limited states, constant turnover leaves legislatures with little expertise.
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Democratic state legislatures are expanding Medicaid now and literally saving lives.
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Rwanda and Bolivia are the only countries with majority-female legislatures.
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How few legislatures could obstruct how much is still being negotiated.
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New bills are progressing though legislatures in France, Germany and Britain.
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Yes, but Democrats flopped in Congress, governor races and state legislatures.
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Many state legislatures followed suit in creating new exemptions for security.
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In both, the state legislatures overwhelmingly are controlled by the GOP.
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Gerrymandering is not the reason state legislatures are becoming more Republican.
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It will now sit in 12 of Germany's 16 state legislatures.
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Although congressional action is critical, state legislatures are even more important.
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In short, political parties and legislatures are made stronger by mavericks.
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And at the moment, 32 states' legislatures are run by Republicans.
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"The Justice Department should be helping state legislatures not creating a financial incentive for state and local law enforcement to go against their own legislatures," Robert Everett Johnson, an attorney from the Institute forJustice told Axios.
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At the state legislative level, where Democrats were crushed by Republicans in the 2010 and 2014 midterms, the party seized control of seven state legislatures, according to tabulations made by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Looking at maps of governors mansions and state legislatures across the country is like staring at a sea of red; Republicans control more than two-thirds of state legislatures in America, as well as 33 governors mansions.
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This is also a failure of the courts and our state legislatures.
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"It would return to the states and the state legislatures," Owens says.
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Women still are not proportionally represented in any state or national legislatures.
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The organizations have also drafted bills introduced by Republicans in state legislatures.
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So there's another factor at play: Republicans' total power over state legislatures.
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Twenty-nine governors were Democrats, and the Democrats controlled 27 state legislatures.
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Since 2010, Republicans have more than doubled their control of state legislatures.
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In 21 states, there are both Republican governors and Republican majority legislatures.
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John McCain (R-Ariz.) frequently said, is essential to well-functioning legislatures.
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The USMCA must also be approved by the Canadian and Mexican legislatures.
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Ten were elected to the federal Congress and seven to state legislatures.
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Republicans' control of 33 governorships and roughly two-thirds of state legislatures.
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Mason's mechanism for change driven by state legislatures has never been used.
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The transition to state legislatures is a turning point in the movement.
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When states were given a free hand to apportion legislatures by any
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The party controls both chambers of state legislatures in only 15 states.
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Indeed, in the early republic, state legislatures often chose presidential electors directly.
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Because people need to remember: governors can't pass laws, only legislatures can.
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Similar bills are making their way through legislatures in Oklahoma and Indiana.
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B.J. Rudell: The GOP's tenuous grip on blue and purple state legislatures.
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Less covered but more important will be their gains in state legislatures.
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Our legislatures are poorer because they exclude so many talents and perspectives.
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It would take 34 state legislatures to agree to such a procedure.
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But he has said the issue should be left to state legislatures.
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Those regulators just happen to be in state legislatures across the country.
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The state legislatures there also grew significantly less representative as America urbanized.
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"There is no single 'correct' method of apportioning state legislatures," he wrote.
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When Obama took office, Democrats controlled both chambers in 22017 state legislatures.
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"That now allows us as legislatures to do our job," he added.
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Moreover, the Constitution gives the power to apply only to state legislatures.
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And several state legislatures are considering exploring the Medicaid buy-in strategy.
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That process, in most states, is run by state legislatures and governors.
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But those are small steps, like breaking super-majorities in state legislatures.
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With that voice, I think state legislatures have slowed down the momentum.
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More are moving through the legislatures of 11 states, Ms. Nash said.
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But Republicans continue to control the majority of state legislatures, with 29.
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During the Obama years, we lost over 900 seats in state legislatures.
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That may be enough to keep them in national legislatures and conversations.
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State legislatures are the pool from which national candidates are generally drawn.
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We hope that other legislatures will join ours in this important campaign.
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State legislatures are where real progressive action is most likely to happen.
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After the 2010 midterms, Republicans seized majority control of 11 state legislatures.
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Yet Republican legislatures block modest, popular gun control measures at every turn.
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In this respect, state legislatures are a key source of new talent.
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What is extremely powerful is your district attorney and your state legislatures.
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Republicans dominate most state legislatures, effectively running the chambers in 213 states.
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State legislatures and the City of New York are considering similar laws.
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Today, Republicans control legislatures in 2023 states, including Nebraska's ostensibly nonpartisan Senate.
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State boards and legislatures have wrestled with how to regulate the industry.
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State legislatures will be drawing new district maps after the next election.
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At least two other state legislatures are considering steps toward legalizing marijuana.
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Out of the three countries' legislatures, only Mexico's has approved the agreement.
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Republicans won majorities in 22014 state legislatures, including Ohio, Indiana, and Alabama.
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When state legislatures realized this, the ratifications stopped and several states rescinded.
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They focused on delivering state legislatures and gerrymandered districts into Republican control.
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State legislatures and the City of New York are considering similar laws.
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A full 70 percent of state legislatures are currently in Republican hands.
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Because legislatures in many states are responsible for crafting new maps, newly Republican-dominated legislatures were able to craft districts that helped the party solidify its control of the U.S. House of Representatives for the remainder of the decade.
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Repealing the Second Amendment would require super-majorities of Congress and state legislatures.
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Maine and Nevada are the latest states whose legislatures have voted to join.
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They control 32 legislatures outright and split control of another four with Democrats.
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It's very common for anti-abortion state legislatures to pass extreme abortion bans.
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And not just Congress, you should care who is in your state legislatures.
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Wisconsin is one of many state legislatures working to pass anti-abortion bills.
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The first line of defense will be Democratic governors, attorneys-general and legislatures.
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Governors could apply for Obamacare waivers without the support of their state legislatures.
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Now more than ever, attention and resources should be directed to state legislatures.
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Rather than a counterweight to the federal government, state legislatures are Trumpism's anchor.
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So far, the compact has become law only in states with Democratic legislatures.
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They've lost 62 House seats, 12 governorships, and 958 seats in state legislatures.
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The legislatures in Pennsylvania and Vermont are both considering laws similar to California's.
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Several other Republican-led state legislatures have enacted similar measures in recent years.
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Legislatures in several states are grappling with claims of sexual harassment and abuse.
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Even before the Parkland shooting, at least 19 legislatures were considering such bills.
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As of the last election, Republicans control 32 of the nation's state legislatures.
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It also hurts Democrats in House elections, because state legislatures draw Congressional districts.
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That task falls in most states to state legislatures and the state's governor.
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Similar tactics created disproportionately Republican state legislatures and congressional delegations across the country.
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When Democrats have lost a thousand seats and legislatures all over the country.
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We are here for the legislatures, the courts, and for the White House.
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Their big push involves collaboration with organizations dedicated to electing Democratic state legislatures.
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Congress is currently 19.4% women, and state legislatures nationwide consist of 24.9% women.
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I hope that state legislatures continue to look for solutions to this issue.
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I also looked at budget requests made by state governors to their legislatures.
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A third minor factor presumed state legislatures were consumed with selecting a Senator.
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Our national dialogue suffers and gridlock in Congress and state legislatures is exacerbated.
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Harwood: Do you have any legislatures you think are ripe to be flipped?
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"Many legislatures are not even in session when shootings happen," Mr. Poliquin said.
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States legislatures then practically tripped over themselves in their dash to ratify it.
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And, at least most of the time, state legislatures draw congressional district lines.
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Several other state legislatures, including North Carolina, have introduced similar bills this year.
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Those statues can be replaced by the governors and legislatures of those states.
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Most were drafted by state legislatures, rather than by conventions of the people.
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In fact, 77 countries have higher percentages of women in their elected legislatures.
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Today, Republicans control 26 state legislatures, Democrats 17, and five have split control.
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Do not usurp the role of the State legislatures by creating new laws.
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It surrendered state legislatures while keeping Barack Obama in office for eight years.
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But such measures have failed under both Democratic-led and Republican-led legislatures.
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Independent districting commissions are certainly an improvement over state legislatures drawing district lines.
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Now it is up to state regulators and legislatures to take it up.
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Similar bills are pending in Maryland, New York, Illinois, and Nevada state legislatures.
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The pact still needs to be ratified by legislatures in all three countries.
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There is momentum building for fetal-heartbeat bills in Republican-dominated state legislatures.
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The virus outbreak has brought state legislatures across the country to a standstill.
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In Federalist 48, Madison called legislatures an "impetuous vortex" swallowing up competing powers.
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But Republican-controlled legislatures in some states are resisting that transfer of power.
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Meanwhile, state legislatures are starting to take on recreational legalization on their own.
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Wade, Democratic-controlled legislatures can enshrine women's reproductive freedom in their own laws.
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It is now represented in every one of the country's 16 state legislatures.
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G.B.T.Q. policies pursued by the White House and in extreme-right state legislatures.
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Close to 20 state chapters provided support to candidates and lobbied state legislatures.
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Environmental regulation would pass to the states, where Republican legislatures and governors dominate.
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In 1936-7, the British decided to conduct elections to 11 provincial legislatures.
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Here's a state-by-state guide from the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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In 2009, the GOP had full control of the legislatures of 14 states.
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If Washington is dysfunctional — a pitiful, helpless giant — legislatures can show the way.
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They are a minority in Congress and a minority in most state legislatures.
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It went out to the state legislatures and only 28503 states ratified it.
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State legislatures have so far introduced 27 bills banning most or all abortions.
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But the Alternative for Germany has steadily broadened its presence in state legislatures.
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We cannot underestimate the tech sector's power in Congress and in state legislatures.
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It's really going to help us with some of these Republican state legislatures.
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Those states are overwhelmingly led by Republican governors and GOP-dominated state legislatures.
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Another surge of stringent abortion limits is expected in state legislatures next year.
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State legislatures aren't sexy, but they determine what happens when you have sex.
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The practice has been growing in Republican legislatures in at least 16 states.
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Legislatures in Massachusetts and Connecticut are likely to consider minimum wage hikes, too.
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State legislatures control a lot of issues, from health to labor to education.
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Conservative governors and state legislatures are already going bolder on criminal justice reforms.
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The chances of 38 state legislatures passing any rogue amendment are effectively zero.
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The last time Democrats controlled a majority of state legislatures was in 2010.
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In other states, the practice has been abolished by either legislatures or courts.
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State legislatures are also increasingly weighing in on which energy sources get built.
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Advocates have also sought to push for reform in another venue: state legislatures.
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It's not that voters' perceptions of the state legislatures themselves are completely irrelevant.
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By 1983 the project was on the brink of success; 32 state legislatures, some of them Democratic, had signed up, and California and Montana were set to hold ballot initiatives that would have forced their legislatures to add to those applications.
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In state legislatures — the ones that have a day-to-day effect on local policies like abortion access and drug criminalization — women still comprise only about a quarter of members across the country, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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If state legislatures cannot define gender identity objectively, there seems little hope for individuals.
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Most are elected and thus can act independently of their state legislatures or governors.
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You still need 38 state legislatures or conventions, this is something you&aposve endorsed?
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Will legislatures try, for the first time in America, to regulate assisted reproduction choices?
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Democrats have long been at a massive disadvantage in governors' mansions and state legislatures.
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But the deal must still be approved by Mexican and Canadian legislatures and Congress.
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Find your state's gift-card laws on the National Conference of State Legislatures website.
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The super PAC is focusing on retaking legislatures for Democrats in competitive swing districts.
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Over the past six years, hundreds of abortion restrictions have sailed through state legislatures.
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Without the radical capture of state legislatures, the court would not have the chance.
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It required a constitutional amendment, numerous parliamentary votes and delicate negotiations with state legislatures.
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It's a strategy that has been adopted by a number of other state legislatures.
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It currently controls just six state legislatures, only two of them in sizeable states.
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The party's presence in state legislatures has already changed the political atmosphere, observers say.
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And state legislatures are the last, best hope to prevent the damage of Trumpism.
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In America, state legislatures are usually responsible for drawing the boundaries of electoral districts.
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But as a practical matter, conservative state legislatures have often blocked progressive local laws.
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It's a rare area of bipartisan cooperation in legislatures that are growing increasingly polarized.
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Kionne McGhee introduced bills akin to California's in their respective legislatures Monday, they said.
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What we're hoping is that this will serve as a model for state legislatures.
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Congress could make no law abridging the freedom of speech, but state legislatures could.
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According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, a dozen states prohibit international observers.
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Chiefs regularly testify before state legislatures and city councils on these public policy issues.
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We will see you in the streets, in our legislatures and in our courts.
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State legislatures have enacted over 400 bills related to the opioid crisis since 2010.
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The holidays must be approved by states legislatures and treated like any other expense.
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What this indicates is that legislatures like North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin have overreached.
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In November, the party lost control of state legislatures in Iowa, Minnesota, and Kentucky.
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Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee all have gas tax measures in their state legislatures.
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State legislatures matter because they draw the lines for congressional districts every 10 years.
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Sometimes they're proposed by legislatures; in other cases, they're the result of petition drives.
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The Virginia elections proved that Democrats' strategies for wining back state legislatures are effective.
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It'd be one thing if Republican state legislatures were actually handling this issue responsibly.
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"Regional and national legislatures often have political interests that cities don't share," he writes.
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In all nine of those jurisdictions, voters — rather than legislatures — have passed ballot measures.
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Both the central government and powerful state legislatures impose a dizzying array of charges.
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And federal officials have indicated the government might step in if state legislatures don't.
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They'll be working with state legislatures with more Democratic legislators than in past years.
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But the new agreement must be ratified by the legislatures of all three countries.
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In 6900 states, the responsibility for drawing congressional district lines lies with state legislatures.
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But this is where all those governor's mansions and state legislatures come into play.
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Since then, many governors and state legislatures continue to deny health care to millions.
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Ratification requires three-fourths of state legislatures (thirty-eight), and Republicans hold thirty-three.
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By the NCSL's record, Republican dominance of state legislatures is at a historic high.
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There's another equally important reason: State legislatures remain a laboratory for really conservative ideas.
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State legislatures, as well as local law enforcement agencies, are starting to take action.
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More than 6,000 seats in state legislatures are at stake in this fall's election.
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Populating our legislatures with these perspectives is not as hard as it might seem.
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State legislatures have been the most reliable source of anti-abortion legislation for decades.
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State legislatures would feel similar pressures to adjust regulations to support competitive insurance marketplaces.
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Let's fill our state legislatures and governor ranks with our best and brightest leaders.
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Calling legislatures out is serious business, and there is nothing casual about these opinions.
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Lawmakers around the country have spent decades pushing anti-LGBT legislation through state legislatures.
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Gerrymandering occurs when legislatures draw districts to benefit one political party over the other.
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It seems such may be the object of other states legislatures across the country.
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Legislatures are trying to make the crime of swatting more punitive with steeper punishments.
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There's a history of state legislatures trying to preempt Supreme Court rulings with legislation.
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Newly elected Democratic governors are likely to have to fight Republican-dominated state legislatures.
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State legislatures, particularly New York, New Jersey, and Vermont, began taking legalization more seriously.
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The Census Bureau must present redistricting data to state legislatures by April 1, 2021.
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It has been, a little bit, largely because the legislatures are controlled by lawyers.
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Republicans control at least 22 capitals entirely, holding governors' offices as well as legislatures.
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Apparently not: Legislatures around the country are now debating the future of cursive penmanship.
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However, some state legislatures have also banned municipalities from enacting paid sick leave laws.
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They took their lobbying efforts to the state legislatures — and found a receptive audience.
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In her study analyzing roll-call votes in state legislatures, she found increasing polarization.
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State legislatures matter too, and Alan Greenblatt of Governing magazine has an overview. 6.
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In state legislatures, we must work to eliminate juvenile life without parole by statute.
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Efforts to bulk up Census outreach have failed to pass in those state's legislatures.
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Then the legislatures will not be able to withdraw from the pact so easily.
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On the state level, state legislatures have the power to impeach and remove governors.
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In states with Republican-led legislatures, the tax bills are as good as dead.
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Even if they make it through state legislatures, the legislation may face other challenges.
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More cities and state legislatures should follow the lead of these forward-looking measures.
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We must demand: In addition, we should incentivize state legislatures to adopt sentencing reform.
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Labor powerhouse states of Ohio and Pennsylvania have RTW bills pending in their legislatures.
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The #MeToo movement has highlighted that legislatures can be deeply hostile workplaces for women.
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Often, legislatures are considering many policies at once, and anachronistic laws are low priority.
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In a burst of enthusiasm, 35 of the necessary 38 state legislatures ratified it.
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He spent locally with state legislatures and $2.5 million in the recent Virginia elections.
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Legislatures in Florida and many other states are also now considering new gun laws.
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The AfD now has seats in eight state legislatures, compared to the NPD's one.
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Nor can we expect leadership from the executive branch, Congress or polarized state legislatures.
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Last week alone, state legislatures passed several major pieces of legislation that benefit families.
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Opposition has been growing as the B.J.P. has been losing elections for state legislatures.
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But Huffman said legislatures should retain most of the control, as Ohio's plan does.
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Most importantly for politicians, many of the state legislatures elected in 2018 will still be in office in 2020, when the country starts the byzantine task of redrawing the congressional map — a process determined differently by each state, but largely by state legislatures.
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Their unions are, in effect, guaranteed representation in the upper houses of some state legislatures.
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In state legislatures, contested primaries don't hurt at all and even help in some cases.
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Before ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913, US senators were chosen by state legislatures.
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The National Conference of State Legislatures has compiled a comprehensive list of voter ID laws.
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And more states, like Missouri and Louisiana, have "heartbeat bills" moving through their state legislatures.
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The results are pretty clear: term limits do indeed mean fresh faces in the legislatures.
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But there is some evidence that that state legislatures are taking the #MeToo movement seriously.
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That state legislatures are given that power and can exert it as they see fit.
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The proportion of women in state legislatures has historically remained between 23 and 25 percent.
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Red America now has the federal government, 33 governorships, and unified control over 32 legislatures.
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This month voters took part in elections for the state legislatures of Punjab and Goa.
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But most Americans have not focused on what's been brewing in state legislatures for decades.
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State legislatures in Arkansas and North Dakota recently rejected efforts to replace paperless voting machines.
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Republicans have majorities in both houses of Congress and both chambers of 133 state legislatures.
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That's even true among public schools in states with hardline immigration policies and oppositional legislatures.
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He lambasted state legislatures that don't want to send taxpayer funds to private religious schools.
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Legislatures may regulate abortion practices but may not place an "undue burden" on that right.
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But at least 20 state legislatures are likely to weigh reforms next year, experts say.
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Republicans picked up seats in the House and the Senate and 675 in state legislatures.
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Democrat-controlled state legislatures in California and Massachusetts are debating such "fee and dividend" measures.
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Several state legislatures are considering restricting their use, at least for workers on modest wages.
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Some 34 states have voter identification laws, according to the National Convention of State Legislatures.
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Those legislatures have redrawn both state and congressional districts to radically depress representation by Democrats.
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During Reconstruction, national Republicans failed to safeguard the control of state legislatures they briefly achieved.
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This looks a lot like a gun ban, which is traditionally the province of legislatures.
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Sub-Saharan African legislatures also contain more female representatives than the US Congress — 230 percent.
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Military veterans in American legislatures will not reach again the high levels of the 1970s.
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Yes, Democrats pick up five The GOP will retain control of governorships and state legislatures.
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The bottom line: The pro-expansion effort will largely remain a grind through state legislatures.
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After all, nineteen Republican state legislatures or governors refused to participate in the Medicaid expansion.
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To become law, the measures must still be approved by a majority of state legislatures.
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Courts and legislatures have consistently confirmed this important distinction by upholding public safety regulatory benefits.
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In Congress and in state legislatures across the country, there is intense pressure to act.
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Most state legislatures have formal, written policies or guidance for legislative employees barring sexual harassment.
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Representatives of state legislatures from across the nation will converge in Phoenix, Arizona on Sept.
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And they worry that legislatures would simply start auctioning off the country's most striking landscapes.
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If state legislatures want to create policies around abortion, they should be based on evidence.
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Republicans in control of state legislatures in most of those states are behind the push.
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Finally, state legislatures should consider preparing for the significant federal change that is likely coming.
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We will fight every anti-woman piece of legislation in Congress and in state legislatures.
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Admittedly, changing allegiance in search of personal advantage has a long history in Italian legislatures.
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Jefferson had insisted that legislatures could alter constitutions themselves, perhaps even by ordinary legislative acts.
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Many state legislatures will consider expanding state-based versions of the federal production tax credit.
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The press went to the mat not only in the courts, but also in legislatures.
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Some of these bills have been defeated, but many continue to move through the legislatures.
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The vast majority of states in America leave redrawing congressional districts to their state legislatures.
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Republican governors and state legislatures, in the meantime, are not waiting for Congress to act.
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The GOP vastly increased the number of state legislatures and gubernatorial seats that it held.
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Both parties would seek out best practices in other legislatures that are modernizing representative democracy.
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And even more women candidates are vying for seats in a number of state legislatures.
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It's Congress and state legislatures, they say, that don't reflect the will of the people.
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At least 1003 states have governors of a different party than their single-party legislatures.
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"The way to change politics in people's lives is to change state legislatures," he said.
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State legislatures will also be in charge of redrawing congressional districts after the 2020 census.
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The framers expected that senators would be accountable to their consciences and their state legislatures.
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The party also made gains in state executive offices and in legislatures across the country.
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In turn, various state legislatures have begun looking for ways to make college more affordable.
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Many state legislatures were persuaded in part by the lure of a Balanced Budget Amendment.
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State legislatures are responsible for laws that govern and impact people's everyday lives — women's lives.
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Republicans and Democrats agreed sufficiently on the general goals and enabled funding through state legislatures.
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But abortion opponents cheered the decision, and called on other state legislatures to follow suit.
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Now, the group is targeting both chambers of the Texas, North Carolina and Florida legislatures.
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We look forward to building on this victory and urge other legislatures to follow suit.
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It was endorsed by President Richard Nixon before being sent to state legislatures for ratification.
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Winning state legislatures and gerrymandering districts were central to their strategy to pass abortion restrictions.
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Of the nation's 50 states, only eight are controlled by both blue legislatures and governor.
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Virginia and North Carolina have similar skews in both their legislatures and their congressional delegations.
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Yet the G.O.P. managed to win control not only of state legislatures but of Congress.
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State legislatures and courts have made moves across the country to criminalize abortion for women.
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In both countries, however, the moves are likely to face tough rides through the legislatures.
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The catch: Legislatures in some states, including Tennessee, have passed laws on short-term rentals.
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Vote against Republican governors who veto renewable energy bills that pass Democratic-majority state legislatures.
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State legislatures, which oversee everything from infrastructure to gerrymandering to abortion laws, are particularly important.
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Bills like HB2 are cropping up by the dozens in state legislatures across the nation.
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As a party, the GOP controls Congress and completely controls 60 percent of state legislatures.
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So how far does the performance of states relate to party control of state legislatures?
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Republicans in state legislatures have been trying for years to strip funding from Planned Parenthood.
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"We are in a time when there is a lot of division in our politics, and the divisions are along social, economic and geographic lines," said William T. Pound, executive director of the National Conference of State Legislatures, a group that serves members of legislatures.
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The House of Commons is more male (70%) than equivalent legislatures in Algeria, Belarus and Sudan.
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And after the census in 2020 state legislatures will draw up plans for redrawing congressional districts.
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Overmighty teachers' unions—which, in effect, are guaranteed seats in some state legislatures—make matters worse.
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The party holds no branch of the federal government and fewer than half of state legislatures.
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Legislatures in other states, such as Missouri, are making similar moves to restrict or ban abortion.
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That's a lot of legislatures, lots of governors and public utility commissions, lots of moving parts.
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In recent years, state legislatures and governors have made dramatic changes to registration and voting rules.
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According to the Guttmacher Institute, state legislatures have passed nearly 300 anti-abortion laws since 2010.
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We're really trying to work with companies and legislatures in certain areas, especially like ex-offenders.
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But this cycle, many more Democratic women ran and won across state legislatures than Republican women.
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Also, 9 women are currently serving as governors and over 2,100 women serve in state legislatures.
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So, to the Virginia Assembly and other state legislatures contemplating similar moves, I say: Be bold.
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Marijuana Moment is tracking 1,038 cannabis bills in state legislatures and Congress for the 2019 session.
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Conservative legislatures raced to pass restrictive abortion laws in the hopes of testing the 1973 decision.
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They also elect some 3m local-level officers, as well as representatives to 29 state legislatures.
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This year, many city and state legislatures are joining the effort to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
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Professional politicos couldn't predict that Democrats would win 12 special elections for state legislatures in 2017.
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The judiciary is not the right venue for setting limits on how legislatures draw electoral lines.
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Rules that are in draft form in at least ten state legislatures would be wiped away.
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In other states with majority-Republican legislatures and conservative governors, similar restrictive laws could come quickly.
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Like many of their voting constituents, Congress and state legislatures are just becoming aware of blockchain.
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A century ago, rural-controlled state legislatures used their authority to weaken cities through "ripper bills".
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According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, this state has a strict photo ID law.
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Permits, meanwhile, sounds like the stuff of lengthy, boring battles in local legislatures and utility commissions.
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And even where governors aren't supporting clean energy initiatives, state legislatures are pushing them through anyway.
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But changing the Constitution is purposefully complicated and requires overwhelming backing from Congress and state legislatures.
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The stark realities of both the state and federal legislatures make the November 6 midterms crucial.
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The party has ceded dozens of seats in Congress and almost 1,000 seats in state legislatures.
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Proposals to abolish non-medical exemptions have been introduced in several state legislatures this lawmaking season.
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This is what seems to be happening around the country in state legislatures with Republican majorities.
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Alternatively, two-thirds of the state legislatures could call a constitutional convention, but that's never happened.
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A slew of similar measures have recently come up for debate in state and local legislatures.
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Since Obama took office eight years ago, Democrats have lost over 800 seats in state legislatures.
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As a result, Republicans picked up 675 legislative seats and gained control of twelve state legislatures.
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That tends to require supermajorities in state legislatures, which are in precious short supply for Democrats.
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In those states, the governor is allowed to veto congressional district lines drawn by state legislatures.
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Wade: Wendy's Story In the first quarter of 2017 alone, state legislatures introduced 431 abortion restrictions.
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They don't talk like D.C. types or cautious governors who have to wrangle with state legislatures.
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The incoming DNC chair should be solely judged by how many of those legislatures Democrats retake.
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At least 24 other states have similar measures, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Far too often, especially where legal measures are directed at sexual offenders, legislatures ignore scientific evidence.
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In addition to a number of "First Amendment Defense" bills running through state legislatures, Republican Sens.
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Their Republican governors signed the budget bills after late-night negotiations with their respective state legislatures.
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He also warned that Republican legislators would almost certainly retaliate in state legislatures that they controlled.
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Six more would trigger a convention, and eight states without a petition have Republican-led legislatures.
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It gained majorities in most state legislatures — 19 out of 32 — and hundreds of mayoral races.
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Republicans have dominated governors' offices and legislatures in the Midwest for most of the last decade.
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Universities, whether private or public, as well as state legislatures would do well to remember this.
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Republicans have gained hundreds of seats at state legislatures nationwide since Obama was elected in 85033.
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Yet, the overt racism of white interference by state legislatures doesn't neatly fit along partisan lines.
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While Congress continues to consider policies to prevent mass shootings, state legislatures have been taking action.
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That kind of diversity has become standard policy for local legislatures, even the most conservative ones.
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And they mirror bipartisan legislation that's already being introduced on Capitol Hill and in state legislatures.
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Other state legislatures are making their own attempts to maintain the rules at the state level.
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On Tuesday, they won full control of six state legislatures, including Colorado, New York, and Connecticut.
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The former freed the GOP from the Democrats' decades-long stranglehold over state and federal legislatures.
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But the act doesn't otherwise alter the authority given to licensing boards by their state legislatures.
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Republicans also amassed control of a huge number of state legislatures and governorships under President Obama.
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Republicans control the Senate, the House, 33 governorships and the vast majority of state legislatures nationwide.
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Of course, political and financial motivations continue to drive events in family courts and legislatures today.
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At least 25 bills in state legislatures would force campuses to allow access to ICE agents.
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Eshoo said state legislatures are "screwing" local communities that want to invest in their own networks.
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That's because state legislatures play an outsize role in redrawing district maps for the US House.
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Margot: Maybe state legislatures in some states, but then we're not talking a Medicare-like program.
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Legislatures and elected officials in the South and elsewhere immediately embarked on efforts to disenfranchise voters.
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At the time, white Democrats still dominated state legislatures and local governments in the Deep South.
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It's not the only near-total abortion ban to pass through state legislatures in recent days.
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And if so, is this the responsibility of the federal government, state legislatures or private companies?
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Legislatures, it was becoming clear, could be a political quagmire, even in states that appeared welcoming.
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There is a long tradition of quorum-breaking in American legislatures, dating to before the Constitution.
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The National Conference of State Legislatures lists the exact requirements for each one on its website.
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It determines how many seats in Congress each state receives and how state legislatures are apportioned.
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Still other members were related to men in their state legislatures or leaders in local governments.
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State legislatures seeking a convention for proposing amendments must make "Application" to Congress for that purpose.
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To make matters worse, many state legislatures continue to introduce bills that would harm trans children.
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Democrats control the legislatures in those three states, but net neutrality bills could still face obstacles.
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Should the person be elected by the Congress, the state legislatures, or the people-at-large?
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Republican-led legislatures in both states blocked those efforts, before the Federal Communications Commission stepped in.
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Party bosses then compile lists of candidates and dictate how members of the legislatures should vote.
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To amend the Constitution, the bill needs the support of both chambers in two successive Legislatures.
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A number of state legislatures will likely restart the CCPA clone-and-revise process in 2020.
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To fully address the threat of gerrymandering, both Congress and the state legislatures need to act.
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Even before the Parkland shooting, similar proposals were being considered by at least 19 state legislatures.
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In many Republican-controlled state legislatures after the 2010 census, "safe" districts for Republicans were drawn.
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Efforts by legislatures in California and elsewhere have been unsuccessful in substantially changing how pharmacies operate.
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GMO labeling bills are pending in 31 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Seventeen states passed drone-related legislation in 2017, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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But Judge Jackson is wrong in suggesting that legislatures are also not constrained by the Constitution.
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About 570 anti-abortion measures were introduced in state legislatures in 2019, according to the report.
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That's prompted many teacher candidates to fight back against legislatures that have diverted funds from pensions.
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Instead of having state legislatures choose senators, the amendment gave that power directly to the voters.
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That list includes red states run by Republican legislatures, like Alaska, Georgia, Tennessee and West Virginia.
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Training should be: Investigations must be independent, thorough and fair Legislatures must take harassment allegations seriously.
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In the longer run, countering gerrymandering will fall back to state legislatures, courts and voters themselves.
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Entrusting it to state legislatures, where charter-hostile teacher unions hold considerable power, is beyond risky.
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"Democratic socialists must secure decisive majorities in legislatures while winning hegemony in the unions," he writes.
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But in both states, the Republican Legislatures are looking for ways to roll back those votes.
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In the past few decades, Bail reform has trickled through state legislatures across the United States.
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President Richard Nixon got onboard, and polls of state legislatures suggested strong support throughout the country.
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Hungary and Poland, unchecked by courts and legislatures that have grown weak, are backsliding into authoritarianism.
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National legislatures also play a role in fighting downturns by enacting (or not) fiscal stimulus programs.
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This map, from the National Council of State Legislatures, shows how each state handles voter identification.
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"Democrats are running the most candidates for state legislatures since 1982," Sloan said in her statement.
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Democrats have said partisan gerrymandering by Republicans in several states helped Trump's fellow Republicans maintain control of the House and various state legislatures for much of the decade, although Democrats seized a majority in the House in the November elections and made inroads in state legislatures.
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Democrats have said partisan gerrymandering by Republicans in such states as Wisconsin and Pennsylvania helped Trump's party maintain control of the U.S. House and various state legislatures for years, although Democrats seized control of the House in last November's elections and made inroads in state legislatures.
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But so, too, does the power of legislatures to regulate it in the name of public safety.
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And millennial women won key races that will bring more diversity and gender balance to state Legislatures.
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The requirement that 34 state legislatures approve of any convention has long seemed too high a hurdle.
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Following the decision in Crawford, the number of voter identification laws passed by state legislatures has increased.
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Legislatures in Missouri and West Virginia did so by overriding the vetoes of their respective Democratic governors.
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In the last eight years -- more than 900 seats in state legislatures went from Democrat to Republican.
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Twenty-two states also ban corporate contributions to candidates, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Wilson chose the latter, and got to work with state legislatures to find a more sustainable solution.
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And, as internet dissemination speeds increase exponentially, the often-analog legislatures have to try to keep pace.
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He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
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Nine other states have "strict" photo identification voter laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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After all, in 2014, nearly 50% of all members of Congress got their start in state legislatures.
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It would then need to be ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures or a ratifying convention.
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We've seen state legislatures change their tune and tighten those loopholes after massive outbreaks in the past.
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Republicans also lost over 20163 seats in state legislatures, leaving them at their lowest level since 1938.
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Since then, similar bills have been drafted and introduced both federally and in dozens of state legislatures.
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Courts and legislatures constantly set up guardrails for law enforcement, but fail to impose penalties for violations.
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Despite this, many legislatures enact or amend statutes in a piecemeal fashion, sometimes leading to unanticipated results.
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Republicans hadn't controlled either chamber of Congress, or a majority in state legislatures, for a quarter-century.
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Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the Legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench.
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The law is one of many abortion clinic restrictions passed by Republican-controlled state legislatures since 2010.
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Women of color hold 7.1 percent of congressional seats and 5.9 percent of seats in state legislatures.
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Also: According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, this state has a non-photo ID law.
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Since Mr Murphy's resignation in October, there have been 49 special elections to state legislatures and Congress.
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And jumping from ballot initiatives to state legislatures is something that has worked for marijuana advocates before.
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Four states have already passed legislation, and several others are currently debating the issue in state legislatures.
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And the same pattern exists in the vast majority of state legislatures up and down the country.
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With this requirement abolished, the adoption of voter ID requirements accelerated rapidly in GOP-dominated state legislatures.
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In 2014, the GOP spent another $38 million on state races and picked up ten more legislatures.
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Amending the Constitution only requires approval by three-quarters of the state legislatures: That's just 38 states.
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"We are looking for other places where Republican legislatures have committed the same legal error," he said.
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In all, 21 state legislatures will consider bills aimed at increasing gas taxes this year, Davis said.
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It was one of numerous voter ID laws passed by Republican-led state legislatures in recent years.
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Over 20023 academic freedom bills introduced in state legislatures since 2004 follow a near-exact word structure.
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By the second week of January, at least 46 new restrictions had been introduced in state legislatures.
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The constitution gives Myanmar's 14 states, including seven dominated by a particular ethnic group, their own legislatures.
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Republican majorities in state legislatures have created a wider battlefield, forcing gay rights supporters to play defense.
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Seven state legislatures have voted to abolish the death penalty in the past ten or twelve years.
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She said the totals include people interested in running for local school boards, state legislatures and Congress.
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Around the country, all but a handful of states allow their legislatures to control the redistricting process.
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In fact, this year we proudly observed the election of three Iranian American women to state legislatures.
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Remember that Republicans controlled a huge number of state legislatures and governor's mansions following their 2010 wave.
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Populists paralyse fragmented legislatures, blur into the mainstream and shape a more nationalist, less co-operative agenda.
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When it was written, by the way, senators weren't even elected; they were selected by state legislatures.
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In fact, the tenacious overreach of these conservative state legislatures could very well backfire politically for Republicans.
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And according to Ballotpedia, 2023 state legislatures have considered 101 bills that touch on public-sector unions.
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The Indiana and Wisconsin legislatures are considering similar measures that could move as early as this year.
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The Supreme Court's decisions come amid a wave of anti-abortion laws being passed by state legislatures.
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Five additional attorneys general will be appointed by governors or state legislatures up for election this year.
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The poll comes as several GOP-led state legislatures have moved to enact strict bans on abortion.
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Jessica Post, who runs the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which focuses on state legislatures, reports the same.
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Republicans now control 31 state legislatures, it said, and both the governorships and statehouses in 23 states.
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Many states, including North Carolina, do not permit citizen initiatives — or require state legislatures to authorize them.
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Congress and state legislatures could recognize this reality by giving all parties what they claim to want.
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Despite the groundswell of support for net neutrality in state legislatures, though, the legislation still faces obstacles.
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The LGBT community faces an uphill battle getting gay-rights legislation through Congress and red-state legislatures.
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By 20203, 22020 states had "strict" voter ID laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Bills proposed in state legislatures are easy fodder for outrage — some wacky proposals get introduced every year.
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That hyper-concentration of Democratic votes has long hurt the party in the House and state legislatures.
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Winning back control of state legislatures in Pennsylvania and Michigan could help Democrats in redistricting after 2020.
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The trend in state legislatures in the early 1970s, she wrote, was toward more liberal abortion laws.
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It is time for state legislatures to fully fund and enforce the laws they have already passed.
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Despite some losses last month, Republicans remain in control of more governor's seats and more state legislatures.
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But Wisconsin's and North Carolina's Republican-led Legislatures went far beyond Michigan in seeking to neuter Democrats.
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Currently, about 61 percent of women in state legislatures are Democrats and about 38 percent are Republicans.
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Many governors, Sheehan added, can veto gerrymandered congressional district boundaries that state legislatures reshape once a decade.
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Wade is the reality that state legislatures nationwide are already taking steps to effectively ban all abortions.
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More recent efforts by Republican-held state legislatures to erect large barriers to voting are more explicit.
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"The change in the Supreme Court has just sent this huge wave across state legislatures," Nash said.
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And that will likely lead to more victories in the ballot box and legislatures down the line.
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It explains why Republicans are routinely overrepresented in state legislatures, even in blue states like New York.
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Many state legislatures have taken up this cause, with statehouses coast to coast reconsidering the annual practice.
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Within legislatures, women rarely lead their parties' delegations, and they remain absent from the most prestigious committees.
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But 85033 states — most with Republican governors or legislatures — have decided not to go down that road.
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But 6900 states -- most with Republican governors or legislatures -- have decided not to go down that road.
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Abortion should be decided in state legislatures, said Steven Aden, general counsel of Americans United for Life.
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Radical policy shifts might be appropriate for legislatures following elections, but they are usually inappropriate for judges.
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The Democratic Party, the party that embraces "engagement," is in atrophy in state legislatures across the country.
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Their control over the state legislatures then gave the GOP an unfair advantage in the US House.
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Only six states will now have legislatures and governor's offices exclusively dominated by Democrats, Mr. Storey said.
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Or will the legislatures in these states rush to withdraw from the compact, blackout period be damned?
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Republican-led legislatures in Ohio and North Carolina were successful in reducing early voting compared with 2012.
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Editorial State legislatures are where the coming generation of national leaders learn the ropes and get ahead.
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At the state level, Republican governors and legislatures have pushed to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients.
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The idea behind Project Blitz is to overwhelm state legislatures with bills based on centrally manufactured legislation.
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They are protecting him now, as they giddily collect their winnings in legislatures and in the courts.
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It doesn't matter whether the governors or the legislatures are Democratic or Republican, there's a bipartisan consensus.
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Griffith noted that the Supreme Court has previously said legislatures can have legal standing in such cases.
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The country already had two men who claim to be its rightful president and two rival legislatures.
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But that support has shifted in recent months as restrictive abortion bills made their way through legislatures.
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It needs to be ratified by 38 of 50 state legislatures in order to come to fruition.
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It helped flip the House and a swath of the country's state legislatures from blue to red.
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State legislatures in New York, Michigan, and Massachusetts are also considering bills to rein in the technology.
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And if it were a thing, it would be done by legislatures or courts, not the president.
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But state legislatures across the country are acting to block BDS before it gains real policy traction.
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Five other states have adopted similar legislation since then, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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However, Democrats cutting into Republican majorities in state legislatures can be a more significant cause for concern.
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What's worse, we cannot count on the courts, the president, Congress or state legislatures to save us.
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And most of the gambling laws being considered in state legislatures included severe limitations on digital play.
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Republican-controlled state legislatures are expected to put forth many pieces of anti-abortion legislation this year.
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Funeral-industry groups had lobbied state legislatures to create laws about who could prepare and bury bodies.
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Some states with Republican governors and legislatures have rejected the waivers even though they are still eligible.
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We've all heard about the anti-trans bathroom bills that various state legislatures have tried to pass.
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Similar disparities can be found in states like Michigan and Virginia — and, increasingly, in many state legislatures.
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Requirements set forth by legislatures include changes to curriculum, staff and parent meetings, and state-wide testing.
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Since 2010, many state legislatures have passed laws requiring that people show identification before casting a ballot.
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We have to fight through every channel, through the legislatures, through the courts, through the ballot boxes.
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Amin had been a presidential adviser and had served in local and national legislatures in the past.
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And while the battle over voter identification laws has reached a temporary plateau — Republican-controlled state legislatures have already acted on those laws, while Democratic-controlled legislatures have blocked them — proof of citizenship is likely to emerge as the next national fight over voting rights and election security.
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For much of the past decade the party neglected races for state legislatures and governors' mansions (see charts).
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State legislatures in California and New York have enacted laws that gradually raise their minimum wages to $219.
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However, most states do have a secretary of elections to push for better voting systems in state legislatures.
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In response, the Drug Enforcement Agency and a number of state legislatures have tightened restrictions on opioid prescribing.
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The updated pact, which is now called the USMCA, still needs to be approved by each nation's legislatures.
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These recommendations — indeed, all 28 — would require coordinated action from Congress, federal agencies, state legislatures, and local officials.
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Blackburn is particularly loyal to AT&T, whose stranglehold over countless state legislatures sometimes teeters on the comical.
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This proposed amendment would need to be passed by two separately elected legislatures, The NY Daily News reports.
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In recent weeks legislatures in Minnesota, Indiana and Iowa have moved to add laws specifically targeting roadway blocking.
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The ruling will likely caution other state legislatures against trying to eliminate ethnic studies courses, according to Medina.
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That's why an amendment requires an overwhelming congressional majority and ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures.
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Campaign finance reforms, unlikely to pass in Congress or most state legislatures, are also possible through local laws.
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Democrats gained majorities in seven state legislature chambers last night, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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India's many state legislatures are even lazier: most of them meet for fewer than 30 days a year.
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Andy Harris blamed local public health officials for "not lobbying their legislatures adequately" for the funding they need.
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Right now, women make up only 25% of state legislatures, 20% of Congress, and just 12% of governorships.
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Duffy is hopeful state legislatures or the tourism industry will take action on regulating or outlawing the boats.
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They aim to replace the world's elected legislatures with a new system known as issue-based direct democracy.
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Here's where things stand: When it comes to abortion, the majority of the power lies in state legislatures.
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And it's gerrymandered, minoritarian legislatures restricting the voting franchise and aggrandizing their power over popularly elected statewide officials.
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"If we don't win these state legislatures, it doesn't matter who the fuck the president is," Litman said.
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The state legislatures, which regulate elections, should immediately establish voter registration offices and polling places at every college.
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The legislatures of both states passed bills last week that would change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day.
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The services can't make this look like a setback while they gear up to argue in state legislatures.
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As in many European countries, legislatures in Germany are fragmenting as voters detach from traditional identities and habits.
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Also: According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, this state has a strict non-photo ID law.
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But the latter has to begin at the lowest level: school boards, city councils, county commissions, state legislatures.
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In both Wisconsin and Michigan, Republicans will continue to control the legislatures but will now have Democratic governors.
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Democratic governors and state legislatures are moving to make net neutrality rules a reality at the state level.
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Even recalcitrant GOP legislatures in Virginia and Missouri have accomplished the same over the objections of Democratic governors.
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There have to be some decent Democratic candidates in the state legislatures all across the country right now.
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"So many of the laws that affect criminal justice and education are determined in state legislatures," he said.
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But each of the services, along with the Coast Guard, has veterans currently serving in the state legislatures.
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State legislatures, Congress, and the Federal Election Commission should not be controlled by party caucuses and special interests.
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But pro-choice state legislatures have also aggressively introduced bills to counteract the wave of anti-abortion laws.
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The United States Congress, senior military leaders, state legislatures—even private business owners—would all have a say.
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Data: National Conference of State Legislatures, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws; Cartogram: Andrew Witherspoon / Axios
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Other legislatures are expected to take up measures to end the death penalty in the coming legislative session.
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Congress and state legislatures should be following the will of the people and get out of the way.
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Many more political parties are contesting elections for nine provincial legislatures to be held on the same day.
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This year, 28503 bills have been introduced in 22019 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Legislatures across the country passed more restrictions between 2011 and 2013 than they did in the prior decade.
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It's an issue that has forced legislatures to reintroduce a bill that would make conversion therapy illegal nationwide.
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Organizers say they are also targeting six state legislatures they believe are ripe to flip to Democratic control.
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Research does show that Republican governors and Republican-controlled legislatures fund higher education less generously than Democratic governments.
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There are currently 15 state bathroom bills pending in legislature, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Still, the last-minute proposal has raised real concerns about companies' level of influence in state-level legislatures.
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Legislatures in Delaware, Rhode Island and Vermont are all likely to take up marijuana legalization measures next year.
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This year, legislatures in 19 states and the District of Columbia have recently considered right-to-die bills.
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And the proportion of women in state legislatures isn't much better: As of 2017, they make up 24.9%.
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The institutions designed to deal with opinion -- the schools, the legislatures, the press — are outposts of ideological certitudes.
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According to the lawmakers, at least 2202 states are exploring implementing a Medicaid public option within their legislatures.
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Teachers have lobbied against these bills in state legislatures, effectively killing lawmakers' appetite for the measures, Kusler said.
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"Power of the Prosecutor" explains how reformer district attorneys are more influential in changing criminal justice than legislatures.
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By forcing judges and others to raise their own revenues, state and local legislatures incentivize detention and conviction.
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It will also require approval by the legislatures of every member state, as well as the European Parliament.
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But this would require changes in the EU's founding treaties, which require all 28 members' legislatures approve them.
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It's time to stop asking teachers to make up for the funding gaps created by their state legislatures.
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If the Democratic Party wants to reclaim state legislatures and Congress, it will have to turn out voters.
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He said it was up to state legislatures, rather than the federal government, to primarily support those efforts.
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Some legislatures are too cautious to take up a controversial issue, so they leave the decision to voters.
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Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Vermont and Washington have among the highest proportions of women in their respective state legislatures.
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In 2628, the historic 28503th was expected to involve either Virginia or Arizona's State legislatures to no avail.
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If legislatures compose red-flag laws with sufficient due process rights, it would be unreasonable to oppose them.
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Medical marijuana is legal in some form in 30 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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They raise money, hold awareness campaigns, host international conferences and fight for their causes in courts and legislatures.
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State legislatures this year have introduced more than 85033 bills seeking to restrict abortion bans, according to CBS.
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Similar bills are moving through legislatures in Arizona and in Florida and have already become law in Arkansas.
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Since 1900, nearly 14,000 measures — including those referred by state legislatures and citizens — have been decided by voters.
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There are currently 31 states where capital punishment is authorized, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Similar laws are pending in state legislatures across the country because, terribly, my case is not an anomaly.
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To be sure, polarization is increasing in our state legislatures, as it is in Congress, but not uniformly.
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Each year, more women are lending their minds and voices to critical decisions in Congress and state legislatures.
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Some Democrats hope the influence of state legislatures on redistricting could be diluted by anti-gerrymandering ballot initiatives.
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According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Nebraska and Louisiana also employ this approach for certain races.
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According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, there are 34 states with voter ID laws in place.
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Congress and state legislatures both rely on census data to determine how many political seats districts should get.
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Through school boards and state legislatures, conservatives have had real impact on public school curricula around the nation.
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As such, the federal government cannot "commandeer" state law enforcement or legislatures to execute a federal regulatory program.
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They had previously been chosen by state legislatures, a system that became full of bribery and extended vacancies.
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More obstacles for the accord could lie ahead: Legislatures of E.U. member states still need to ratify it.
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Legislatures in Kentucky and Idaho, for example, are continuing to advance new abortion curbs, even during the pandemic.
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And state legislatures are likely to struggle to act for the same reasons that Congress could become incapacitated.
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They lobbied members of their state legislatures, men they knew personally, to provide Confederate veterans with military pensions.
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The effects would also bleed into the redistricting of the House and state legislatures in the next decade.
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Republicans won the governor's office in 33 states, up from 31, and increased their dominance in state legislatures.
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And because African-Americans vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, the laws are nearly always passed by Republican-dominated legislatures.
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Yet 18 states — all of them with Republican-controlled legislatures, governors or both — still haven't expanded Medicaid. Why?
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As is obvious, the deck is stacked against girls and women by all-male or majority-male legislatures.
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For it to go into effect, it has to be approved by the legislatures of all three countries.
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State legislatures are often a petri dish for prescriptive policy, as they can be for changes to demography.
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But people from underrepresented groups also bring different perspectives to legislatures, influencing what kind of work they do.
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The national party hasn't condemned these power grabs, giving the state legislatures tacit permission to rewrite the rules.
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Half a dozen new states now have governors and legislatures willing to consider cutting greenhouse gas emissions significantly.
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It could affect the drawing of districts for both Congress and state legislatures, as well as federal spending.
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So for the first 150-plus years of the republic, state legislatures apportioned themselves however they wanted to.
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After the midterm elections, Wen said, 25 governors and 19 state legislatures around the country support reproductive rights.
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And in North Carolina and Michigan, where Republicans still control state legislatures, Democrats in 2018 broke Republican supermajorities.
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WASHINGTON — A new front is opening in the battle to restore so-called net neutrality rules: state legislatures.
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But in recent years, as Republicans captured state legislatures around the country, they have been the primary beneficiaries.
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Vermont and Maine do not strip felons of voting rights, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Legislatures at the state and territory level, however, have made significant strides toward gender equity in recent years.
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State legislatures should order that these rents be forgiven for as long as the closings are in effect.
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The Brennan Center this week released a list of court-related proposals pending before legislatures in 14 states.
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In the months since, the N.B.A. and the M.L.B. have toured state legislatures lobbying lawmakers for the rules.
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These are the volunteers who have gone door to door with petitions and who speak before state legislatures.
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They control the White House, the House, the Senate, 33 governor's offices and the legislatures in 32 states.
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Similar bills are making their way through Colorado, Washington and Minnesota legislatures, and many more are considering legislation.
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Meanwhile, the group is fighting back against a wave of state legislatures seeking to curtail access to abortion.
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From Congress to state legislatures to governor's and mayor's offices, women represent about one in five elected officials.
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In the early republic, senators were chosen by state legislatures and represented their interests in the nation's capital.
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I spent much of my life telling people to forget about Washington and pay attention to state legislatures.
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Republicans now control the presidency, the Senate, the House and a strong majority of governorships and state legislatures.
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And across the country, state after state has enacted forfeiture reforms in state legislatures with overwhelming bipartisan support.
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The big picture: State legislatures will refer to the newest census data in redrawing congressional districts next year.
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Outside the beltway, state legislatures across the country are passing criminal justice reform bills by huge bipartisan margins.
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Those efforts got a significant boost in 2010 when Republicans gained majorities in state legislatures across the country.
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At least four state legislatures and many more cities and counties have considered enacting such laws this year.
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Since 2008, state legislatures have cut approximately $14 billion in funding from public universities, or approximately 20 percent.
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In fact, the respective bills only passed in their state legislatures before getting vetoed by the states' governors.
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Three women, meanwhile, are running for governors' offices and 31 more are bidding for seats in state legislatures.
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Automobile dealers have prevailed on all fifty state legislatures to hinder automakers from selling cars to the public.
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Saturday's polls included seats in state and regional legislatures, as well the national parliament in the capital, Naypyitaw.
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In the longer term, (the impact is) the solidification of courts pushing back on legislatures abusing their authority.
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Obtaining both House and Senate supermajority support, followed by ratification from 38 state legislatures, would be nearly impossible.
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Unaccountable courts may soon decide which party controls state legislatures and, by extension, the U.S. House of Representatives.
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In 2017 alone, over 85033 resolutions and bills tied to cybersecurity were introduced to legislatures across the country.
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State legislatures should not delude themselves that the dangers of an Article V convention can somehow be contained.
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Metrics of trust in a range of governmental institutions — legislatures, courts, civil service — are falling across advanced democracies.
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In reality, interest groups push legislatures and bureaucracies to impose rules cementing their influence, marginalizing principals and parents.
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Venezuela's president has the right to dissolve Congress, dissolve the Supreme Court, dissolve state legislatures, and dismiss governors.
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He suggested that Senators represent the states equally and be selected by state legislatures for long, staggered terms.
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Hasen said he expects more Democratic-led legislatures to engage in the practice in light of the ruling.
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Legal experts from the National Conference of State Legislatures recently parsed the relevant statutes governing guns in schools.
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As we prepare for the 2020 legislative session, I call on state legislatures to stop passing abortion restrictions.
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He said the framers of the Constitution had contemplated having election maps drawn by state legislatures, not commissions.
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The state is one of eight where Republican-controlled legislatures this year have passed new restrictions on abortion.
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One of the most important bits of the political system that gets hardly any attention is state legislatures.
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Correction: This article previously stated a constitutional amendment has to be approved by two-thirds of state legislatures.
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Missouri is one of eight states where Republican-controlled legislatures this year have passed new restrictions on abortion.
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It proved possible, at least for a while, to move RPSs through state legislatures, so a bunch moved.
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New parties could have more influence in Congress or legislatures than simply as losing names on the presidential ballot.
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In contrast, Republicans grasped the strategic importance of state legislatures, which in many places have the power to gerrymander.
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The proposal has passed one chamber in a handful more states, including Republican-controlled legislatures in Oklahoma and Arizona.
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Republicans had a landslide election in 2010 — gaining more control not just in Congress but also in state legislatures.
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Democratic candidates stumping on health care have a solid chance of picking up seats in a number of legislatures.
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Republican-dominated legislatures throughout the country have imposed regulations limiting the ability of medical facilities to provide abortion services.
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Conservative legislatures are again threatening to place term limits on alimony, something low-income single mothers cannot live without.
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States like New York and Vermont, with majority Democratic legislatures, have passed legislation that provides protections for abortion procedures.
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It was written by a commission and then adopted by state legislatures - sometimes with amendments specific to the state.
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A similar bill has been introduced in Congress, as well as in the New Jersey and New York legislatures.
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Now, abortion rights activists believe they have a unique chance to wrest back those state legislatures from abortion opponents.
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Not only did the GOP win control of Congress, it swept state legislatures and governor races across the country.
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Even when the party does focus on state legislatures, it is through the narrow lens of drawing congressional maps.
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There are only ten more states that allow ballot initiatives and have multiple congressional districts drawn by their legislatures.
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Sanders is also the key to Democrats retaking the U.S. Congress as well as governorships and state legislatures. Why?
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Democrats argue voter ID laws passed by Republican-led state legislatures target voters who typically support the Democratic party.
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This would allow state legislatures to introduce strict abortion laws without the risk that they will be branded unconstitutional.
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Neutral election monitors are muzzled; opposition candidates locked up; districts gerrymandered; constitutions altered; and, in extreme cases, legislatures emasculated.
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Real-life state legislatures are, of course, allowed to redraw or break up voting precincts if they want to.
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One reason is Latin America's unique—and awkward—combination of directly elected presidencies and legislatures chosen by proportional representation.
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As I wrote recently, the party's record in state legislatures suggests its MPs will combine amateurishness with frenetic activity.
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A dozen more state legislatures, including Texas, New Hampshire, and Virginia, are expected to consider similar measures in 2017.
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Debates about which public restroom facilities they and transgender children should use have divided courts, state legislatures and schools.
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Another chief lesson of Reconstruction is the importance that Democrats ought to place upon regaining representation in state legislatures.
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All of us need to demand governors and legislatures and businesses do their part to make our communities safer.
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Bills currently in the New Hampshire and Illinois legislatures would, if passed, require state officials to withdraw from Crosscheck.
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Before the 2018 midterms, women's representation in state legislatures nationally had hovered around 25 percent for about a decade.
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And let accountability for a fair, open, and equitably accessible internet be found in state legislatures and city halls.
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According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, some form of religious freedom acts currently exist in 21 states.
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Data used in this piece comes from a forthcoming AEI report on the status of veterans in American legislatures.
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Deferring to state legislatures over "questions of medical uncertainty is also inconsistent with this court's case law," Breyer added.
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Democrats have lost a shocking number of governorships and state legislatures in the eight years Obama has been president.
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It's imagined as a way to circumvent the ugly process of horse-trading that takes place in actual legislatures.
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Richard Cauchi, program director for health for the conference of state legislatures, said just passing laws doesn't guarantee success.
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Republicans control the legislatures of nearly three-fourths of the country and hold majorities in both houses of Congress.
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Republicans have majorities in 32 state legislatures, and in 24 states, they control the legislature and the governors' mansions.
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The laws are written by legislatures that are filled with politicians who will run for office under these rules.
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Legislatures should pass legislation that limits a police officer's ability to invoke qualified immunity against charges of excessive force.
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Wayfair will allow state legislatures to force online retailers to collect sales taxes for purchases made within their jurisdiction.
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If he's the nominee, we're going to have wholesale losses in Congress and state offices and governors and legislatures.
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State legislatures passed them either without expiration dates or as "continuing applications" so they remained in effect generations later.
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Conditions might be ripe for the proposed increases to win approval in state legislatures, tax experts said this week.
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Already, eight state legislatures have made revisions to their tax codes, and other states are considering their own revisions.
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The State Legislatures, therefore, by this participation in the General Government would have an opportunity of defending their rights.
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Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives and Republicans gained 675 seats in state legislatures across the country.
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They analyzed that data alongside 20,409 gun policy proposals introduced to state legislatures and 493,199 laws that were passed.
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However capable our senators and representatives and their staffs, this is not what legislatures are set up to do.
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The nation's trend is toward worker freedom in the courts, state legislatures and in the decisions of union members.
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It would recognize the legalization of cannabis and state laws that have legalized the drug through their own legislatures.
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Crow also criticized state legislatures that do not have equitable male and female representatives weighing in on the debate.
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The state legislatures are passing the abortion restrictions in hopes of forcing the Supreme Court to revisit Roe v.
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Across the country, state legislatures are authorizing "first-time home buyer savings accounts," which come with varying tax advantages.
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Working to end the assaults on unions—in the workplace, in the courts, in Congress and in state legislatures.
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And they're looking to a blue wave to make it happen—not in the House, but in state legislatures.
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This memo provided protection to states whose voters and duly elected legislatures have legalized some form of marijuana use.
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And they've often had the authority of the courts, state legislatures and the federal Department of Education behind them.
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The Kansas legislature, like about half of all state legislatures, does not have a harassment policy on the books.
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The NDRC will also be on the ground to help Democrats running in governors races and for state legislatures.
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Like many Republican-controlled legislatures, officials in Kansas have resisted efforts to resettle Syrian refugees in the state. Gov.
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Sometimes this happens when companies are handed low-cost or no-cost access rights to infrastructure by state legislatures.
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The National Conference of State Legislatures estimated that states missed out on $23.3 billion in tax revenue in 2012.
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In the forthcoming elections, voters will cast ballots for Parliamentary seats, as well as on seats in state legislatures.
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In Madison's day, legislatures chartered corporations through special acts, one by one, to channel private money into public projects.
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"That makes or breaks Connecticut," said Arturo Perez, a fiscal research analyst at the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Congress and state legislatures should pass laws requiring regular testing for lead and that the results are made public.
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Legislatures should impose a new tax on gun dealers and manufacturers and place the revenue in a special fund.
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It broke the rural stranglehold on state legislatures by mandating the one man, one vote principle for legislative districts.
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He traced modern felony murder doctrine to the 1820s, when state legislatures in the United States codified criminal offenses.
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And state legislatures play a deciding role in issues like education, taxes, minimum wage, paid sick leave and more.
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So if people want serious changes in the criminal justice system, they should petition their state legislatures and governors.
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And in the states, they held less than half of governorships and only about a quarter of state legislatures.
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Should Democrats capture state legislatures in the next election, the ruling would allow them to employ the same tactics.
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Dr. Cappello testified before state legislatures and addressed medical conferences in the United States, Japan, France, Italy and Canada.
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State legislatures passed 69 gun-control measures in 2018, more than three times the number in the previous year.
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In state legislatures across the country, about a dozen newly elected socialists are also just embarking on their terms.
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There is an exception at the state level, where legislatures have passed laws imposing (and relaxing) restrictions on guns.
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Though some prosecutors and state legislatures are now embarking on serious reforms, there's still so much further to go.
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Vaccination levels vary from state to state, largely dependent on how easy state legislatures make it to get exemptions.
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Democrats are getting totally clobbered in state legislatures right now, with only 12 to Republicans' 30 (eight are split).
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"They've been stacking the courts, taking over state legislatures," she said in an interview, referring to anti-abortion groups.
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Twenty eight states still have death penalty statutes on their books, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Northern legislatures, for their part, passed "personal liberty" laws to make it harder for slaveholders to recover their runaways.
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Within state legislatures, Republican-dominated rural areas stand to gain power at the expense of Democratic-leaning urban districts.
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Across the country, state legislatures have passed 423 abortion restrictions since Republicans swept statehouses in 2010, Ms. Nash said.
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In 2014, AUL took credit for 74 anti-abortion laws enacted by state legislatures in the proceeding four years.
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After the 2016 elections, Republicans controlled both branches of the legislatures in 32 states to 14 for the Democrats.
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"That's just the way it broke," said Tim Storey, an elections expert at the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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In the end, ballot initiatives are no substitute for Democrats finding a way to win control of state legislatures.
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Mississippi's 15-week rule is one of several that conservative legislatures across the nation have passed in recent years.
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In the last seven years, the NRA counts more than 2628 pro-gun measures that have passed state legislatures.
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Nash also pointed out that, while state legislatures enact these rules, the information goes to state departments of health.
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That would pave the way for conservative state legislatures to ban or restrict abortion if the Supreme Court acts.
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This law has gotten support of Republican legislatures across the country eager to cash in on corporate campaign funding.
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Most state legislatures are dominated by Republicans, but Democrats have gained ground in several states since President Trump's election.
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The bottom line is that if state legislatures do not act preemptively, they will be forced to act responsively.
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Specific vaccines are required for school students in all 50 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Because state legislatures play such a significant role in this process, their make-up can affect how it operates.
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We'd love to see them become more focused on a comprehensive strategy to flip and defend state legislatures nationwide.
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County commissioners, state legislatures and governors become part of the process and open it up to dialogue and debate.
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No. Libel law is a state-law tort, meaning that state courts and state legislatures have defined its contours.
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Since those gerrymandered state legislatures draw their own district lines, it can seem enormously challenging to ever dislodge them.
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Another loss for labor occurred when Republicans took over a historic number of state legislatures in the 2010 midterms.
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Thus, two-thirds of the state legislatures can call a Convention of States to propose amendments to the Constitution.
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And in the process, more and more of us will enter our country's city councils, state legislatures and Congress.
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Under Obama, Democrats lost more than 1,000 seats in Congress and in state legislatures because of his unpopular policies.
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And even if they did, there is a 0% chance that 38 state legislatures would OK such a plan.
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Republicans control the legislatures of 22020 states, not including Nebraska's nonpartisan, unicameral legislature, compared to only 22010 Democratic states.
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Legislative representation is a zero sum proposition as the number of seats in Congress and state legislatures remain fixed.
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Southern legislatures, controlled by Democrats, passed laws that ensured that blacks were not going to be able to vote.
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In Wednesday's election, voters will choose provincial legislatures and the country's Parliament, which will appoint the next prime minister.
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Widespread outrage over these kinds of cases has led some state legislatures, like Texas', to pass zero-tolerance reforms.
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"In the U.S. there is a longer history of legislatures imposing mandatory sentences that limit judiciary discretion," he added.
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They are running for state legislatures in elections that could shift party control and have huge implications for redistricting.
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Cash-strapped legislatures too often balance their budgets by cutting funds to higher education, resulting in catastrophic tuition hikes.
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And conservative "red state" legislatures have moved aggressively to override LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws adopted by progressive "blue" cities.
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Now various state legislatures, including those in New Mexico, Virginia, and West Virginia, are debating enacting "religious freedom" laws.
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Though similar restrictions have been ruled unconstitutional, that has not stopped states with anti-abortion legislatures from passing them.
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Tenant rights are a fickle beast since they're subject to the whims of both your state and municipal legislatures.
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And they use their power in state legislatures to oppose new mandates, because mandates directly impact their bottom line.
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What they do is corrupt those institutions, slowly and over time, rendering legislatures powerless and elections not truly competitive.
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