Gov. Jerry Brown signed a landmark law Thursday granting driver's licenses to people who are in the country illegally, hailing the measure as an important expansion of immigrant rights and one that should serve as an example to other states.
Arizona lawmakers on the losing side of the Medicaid expansion vote have no legal authority to stop the new law that broadens eligibility for low-income residents, attorneys for Gov. Jan Brewer argued in a court filing Wednesday.
State Sen. Wendy Davis, standing on the stage where she got her high school diploma more than 30 years ago, finally announced Thursday what has been anticipated, telegraphed and talked about for weeks: She is running for Texas governor.
Saying that the current federal government shutdown and tensions between Republicans and Democrats have made Texans ready for a change in leadership, Libertarian Kathie Glass on Wednesday officially announced her candidacy in the 2014 governor’s race.
Libertarian candidates have never made much of a dent in Virginia politics. But Rob Sarvis, a software developer and lawyer who also has master’s degrees in math and economics, climbed as high as 10 percent in recent polls, causing no small amount of whiplash in Virginia political circles.
A federal lawsuit filed by the Virginia Democratic Party claims that some voters in the state may be kept from casting a ballot in November after their names were wrongly placed on a list meant to weed out fraud.
Michigan's Republican-led Senate on Tuesday rejected a Democrat-sponsored resolution seeking to end the legislative year three months early in order to allow for expanded Medicaid eligibility by January 1.
A federal judge denied a pair of requests Tuesday to suspend key provisions in Maryland’sbrand-new gun-control law, ruling that the plaintiffs had not made the case for the “extraordinary relief” they were seeking.
Source: Detroit Free Press | Michigan |
October 1, 2013
A Michigan lawmaker is attempting to stop state-appointed emergency managers from being allowed to approve contracts with firms they’ve worked for, saying the move is in response to Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr pushing the city to contract with his former law firm as Detroit’s lead bankruptcy counsel.
Source: Businessweek | North Carolina |
September 30, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder will announce a lawsuit today challenging voting restrictions adopted by North Carolina after the Supreme Court struck down a core provision of the U.S. Voting Rights Act, said a person briefed on the plans.
Source: Newark Star-Ledger | New Jersey |
September 30, 2013
A state judge ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry in New Jersey, a decision that reverberated across the state and sets up a final battle between gay rights advocates and Gov. Chris Christie at the state Supreme Court.
Fraud is on the rise. There is evidence that fraud has permeated virtually every government-based benefit program at the state, local and federal level. The federal government estimates that three to five percent of public assistance dollars are lost each year to fraud, and tax related identity fraud has grown 650% since 2008.
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