The 117th Congress is coming to an end and with it ends the Democrats' full control of the legislative branch of government. Despite the narrow margins of the last two years, lawmakers ushered through ...

Up and down the ballot, Republicans had a good election. They'll continue to control more legislatures than Democrats — 27 to 17 — a trend that dates back to 2010 elections when Republicans made a ...

I have just uploaded to SSRN a draft of a forthcoming article I have coauthored with Kristen M. Renberg entitled The Paradoxical Impact of Scalia's Campaign Against Legislative History. As many ...

Many state legislative sessions are underway right now — learn more about this crucial political process and how it can bolster or reduce your rights. With an increasingly conservative Supreme Court ...

It's round two in the effort to reform the way police are held to account and with a legislative panel about to make recommendations, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will again push for change. But how ...

Most important about the legislative session just ended is that it just ended. Completed work, to stretch the word's meaning, could have been accomplished in half the time and at a fraction of the ...

President Barack Obama may have only taken the reins of government Tuesday, but that doesn t mean the members of his White House legislative affairs team have been resting on their laurels. With Obama ...

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