As the United States responds to the Covid-19 outbreak with wartime measures, constitutional experts on Wednesday traced boundaries on the authority governors wield to fight the virus.
Read moreA federal judge in Oklahoma ruled Monday that state officials cannot use the Covid-19 pandemic to effectively ban most abortions, clearing the way for medication abortions to resume as well as procedures for women who would lose their right to a lawful abortion by the time the ban was lifted.
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Wisconsin’s Democratic governor on Monday suspended in-person voting for the state’s pivotal primary election set for Tuesday, after weeks of chaos and confusion in which election officials were scrambling to ensure safe access to the polls in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Trump administration’s two-for-one deregulation order survived a legal challenge Thursday by states that said it threatened a greenhouse gas rules and an education program for low-income children, to name a few.
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After weeks of resistance, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued a stay-at-home order Wednesday for the nation’s third most populous state as coronavirus cases neared 7,000.
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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday announced what stands to be the nation’s “boldest” move to curb greenhouse gas emissions, further highlighting a sharp political divide in the Beaver State.
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King County, Washington, is illegally prohibiting immigration deportation flights at county-owned Boeing Field, a suit filed Monday by the U.S. Justice Department claims.
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A Fourth Circuit panel seemed unlikely Tuesday to allow a discovery request in an ongoing fight between immigration rights advocates and President Donald Trump over his 2017 travel ban.
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Wisconsin’s Democratic governor on Monday fulfilled his promise to create a nonpartisan board to draw new legislative maps following the 2020 census, bringing focus back to an issue that helped define partisan politics in the state and nationwide over the last decade.
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Gun rights activists failed Thursday in their bid to overturn Governor Ralph Northam’s ban on all types of weapons on Virginia Capitol grounds at a pro-gun rally next week.
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A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order that allows state and local governments to turn refugees away.
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On the morning of the last Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses, presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren released a new plan to erase student loan debt without the help of Congress.
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The Republican governor of Texas said Friday his state will opt out of a federal refugee resettlement program in 2020, even as leaders in the state’s largest cities have indicated they would welcome refugees.
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A federal judge grilled the government’s lawyer on Wednesday to justify an executive order that gives states the option to turn immigrants away.
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An executive order by President Trump giving states the right to refuse to take refugees is putting Republican governors in an uncomfortable position.
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Capping off a busy first week as Kentucky’s 63rd governor, Democrat Andy Beshear signed an executive order Thursday to reinstate voting rights for over 140,000 people convicted of nonviolent felonies.
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Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor Tony Evers tried for months to get the Republican-controlled Legislature to take up a pair of gun-control bills, holding news conferences and touting polls showing strong public support. When Republicans wouldn’t budge, Evers turned up the heat by using an executive order — his 54th in less than a year — to call a special session on the issue.
Read moreIt wasn’t too long ago that Donald Trump derided presidential executive orders as “power grabs” and a “basic disaster.”
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Eager for changes at the Department of Veterans Affairs, President Donald Trump toyed with issuing an executive order to close parts of the VA health system without consulting Congress, according to an upcoming book by his former VA secretary.
Read moreLooking to make good on his promise to demolish Turkey’s economy if the country crosses the line in Syria, President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order expanding the Treasury Department’s ability to sanction Turkish officials.
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