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Last December and January, the SNCJ staff detailed a sampling of topics we believed would be hot issues in statehouses in 2012. With many states now done with their legislative sessions, over the next few issues we will be reviewing how some of those issues have fared. EDUCATION REFORM — The biggest reform issue in … Continue reading
Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down much of Arizona’s omnibus immigration enforcement law, SB 1070, passed in 2010, will have an immediate impact on five similar state laws passed in 2011, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Those laws are Alabama HB 56, Georgia HB 87, Indiana SB 590, South Carolina … Continue reading
Let’s hear it for the Supreme Court. Whatever one’s view of the overall merit of its rulings on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Arizona immigration law, the court in both cases performed a tricky feat of deferring to the federal government while allowing much-needed running room to the states. This latitude is of … Continue reading
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