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Conservative South Carolina lawmakers sue school district for allegedly teaching 'critical race theory' in violation of law

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group of ultra conservative South Carolina lawmakers is suing a local school district and its superintendent alleging the district violated a one-year state law that seeks to prohibit schools from teaching concepts associated with "critical race theory."

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Raphael Warnock sues Georgia over early voting restrictions for runoff

State law limits early voting after state holidays, including Thanksgiving and another formerly honoring Confederate general

The Guardian - US

Georgia secretary of state's race chosen for required audit

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Thursday that state election officials will conduct an audit of his own race to satisfy an audit requirement added to state law several years ago

The Independent UK

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Editorial: Abortion rights triumphed from coast to coast

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, leaving the right to control one’s own body and decision to be a parent to the whims of state lawmakers, it fell to advocates and voters to fight to protect reproductive rights. A record six measures concerning abortion were placed…

Los Angeles Times

LA district attorney investigating Sheriff Alex Villanueva after deputies were asked to donate to his campaign

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has opened a criminal investigation into whether Sheriff Alex Villanueva violated state law when he solicited campaign donations from deputies, a spokesman for the office said Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times

Warnock, Walker advance to runoff for Senate seat in Georgia

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker will meet in a Dec. 6 runoff in Georgia after neither reached the general election majority required under state law

The Independent UK

Employees flood Twitter with avalanche of goodbyes as Elon Musk's brutal layoffs begin

Sweeping job cuts began today, but many workers are fighting back, with some in America filing a class-action lawsuit against Twitter in San Francisco saying the lack of notice violated federal and state law.

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Citing state law, judge reduces bail for pregnant woman facing murder charge

Judge Mary Marubio said she believed it was in the best interests of Keshia Golden’s child not to be born in Cook County Jail.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago voters needing language help at polls will have less of it on Election Day

A new state law that reduced the number of voting precincts means fewer bilingual ballots and election judges across six languages.

Chicago Sun-Times

St. Louis school shooter failed a background check. Why didn't police take his gun?

ST. LOUIS — Police officers were called to the home of Orlando Harris on Oct. 15, nine days before he went on a shooting rampage inside a St. Louis high school. Harris’ mother had asked officers to remove the weapon, an AR-15 rifle, from her home, citing her son’s mental…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

College voters held back by Texas election law, lack of on-campus polling sites

Many Texas universities don’t have early-voting locations on campus. And state laws regarding voter ID and registration make it hard to turn out younger voters, advocates say.

The Texas Tribune

Arizona board says it will follow law in partial hand count

The Republicans on a rural Arizona county board who wanted to conduct a full hand count of all ballots in the upcoming midterm vote clarified they will follow Arizona state law allowing only partial hand counts following a harshly worded letter from the state’s election director who threatened legal election

The Independent UK

An abortion rights question on the California ballot revives the debate over ‘viability’

As California voters decide whether to amend their state constitution to explicitly protect abortion rights, lawmakers still do not agree on whether the amendment would enshrine those rights, which by state law allow abortion up to 24 weeks, or expand them, permitting abortions at any point in pregnancy, for any…

Tribune News Service

Texans' COVID-19 vaccine records might eventually be destroyed because of state law

FORT WORTH, Texas — The COVID-19 vaccination records of at least 9.6 million Texans will be destroyed five years after the statewide public health disaster ends, unless state officials manage to contact all vaccine recipients and ask whether they want the records preserved.

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The Independent UK

Judge tosses suit claiming illegal acts by Indiana treasurer

A judge has thrown out a lawsuit claiming that Indiana’s state treasurer violated state law by awarding contracts worth more than $6 million to firms linked to her political supporters

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ICYMI: Top stories of the week

Each state has its own election certification deadline that is generally fixed by state law.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Blame bad state law for University of Florida fiasco, not Sasse

Florida’s secretive new university presidential search law is a colossal failure, and a greater insult to the public than expected.

Tribune News Service

Lift restriction on who can perform medication abortions, North Carolina providers ask judges

RALEIGH, N.C. — Since the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June, abortion clinics in North Carolina have seen an influx of patients from neighboring states that have more restrictive laws.

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Sixth Circuit Rules Government Cannot Seize $300,000 in Home Equity to Pay $22,000 Tax Debt

Doing so qualifies as a taking requiring "just compensation" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

The Independent UK

Mississippi judge blocks private schools' tax-funded grants

A Mississippi judge has blocked a state law that put $10 million of federal pandemic relief money into infrastructure grants for private schools

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of California animal welfare law

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded wary Tuesday of California’s animal welfare law and its protections for breeding pigs, warning it could set off a wave of state laws that put a wide array of restrictions on products moving nationwide.

Ballotpedia

Delaware Supreme Court ends no-excuse mail ballots, same-day voter registration

On Oct. 7, 2022, the Delaware Supreme Court issued a ruling in Albence v. Biggin and Mennella, finding that a state law permitting no-excuse mail-in voting and same-day voter registration was unconstitutional. Voters may now only receive mail ballots under certain conditions and the deadline to register to vote in…

Reason

No, State Legislators Can't Ban Interstate Abortion Travel

The Constitution's commerce clause guarantees a domestic free trade zone. A state law that bars a resident from traveling to take advantage of another state’s economic activity would be unconstitutional.

Tribune News Service

Employers must post salary ranges under new California law

California employers will soon have to post salary ranges in job listings, under a state law intended to address unequal pay for women and minority groups.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot’s extra pension payments don’t let Springfield off the hook, Civic Federation says

State laws created the police, fire, laborers and municipal employees pension funds, and state lawmakers have a responsibility to consolidate, reform and fund local pension plans, says Civic Federation President Laurence Msall.

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