Five states — Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, and Utah — already use automatic mail-in balloting systems. In 2016, California voters enacted the California Voter’s Choice Act, which allows counties to opt-in to a mail-in balloting system as the state gradually moves to an automatic mail-in balloting system. The most populous counties in California have opted-in … Read more
Check out this picture of State Senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita speaking on the Senate floor on Friday: Or this one of former Speaker of the Arizona House (now Senator) J.D. Mesnard: Or Democratic Senate Leader David Bradley: When the Arizona State Senate adjourned sine die on Friday on a 24 to 6 vote, those who watched … Read more
While the people of the country are rightly incensed at the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and the fact it took the online releasing of a video capturing a portion of the event to press murder charges on the two men (father and son) who participated in the act two months after the fact, … Read more
“The only object, purpose, or use for taxation by law in this state must be exclusively secular. There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state, as religion. Let it once enter into our civil affairs, our government would soon be … Read more
For you non-lawyers who have been listening to Supreme Court oral arguments over the past week, I hope it has been illuminating about the mystique of oral argument, and no, I don’t mean the unfortunate failure to mute a toilet flush during oral argument last week. That was a first for me as well. If … Read more