state legislatures Archives - Flux https://flux.community/tag/state-legislatures/ A platform for change Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:54:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Supreme Court rejects state legislatures legal theory Trump used in 2020 election heist attempt https://flux.community/jessica-corbett/2023/06/supreme-court-rejects-state-legislatures-legal-theory-trump-used-in-2020-election-heist-attempt/ Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:52:44 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=13931 Democracy defenders across the United States on Tuesday breathed a collective sigh of relief after half of the U.S. Supreme Court’s right-wing supermajority joined with the three liberal justices to reject a “dangerous” legal theory that could dramatically impact federal elections. “The Supreme Court took an important and crucial step today in protecting our system of checks and balances,” […]

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]]> What makes state legislatures uniquely prone to alleged harassment https://flux.community/jennifer-gerson/2022/09/what-makes-state-legislatures-uniquely-prone-to-alleged-harassment/ Wed, 07 Sep 2022 13:00:26 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12241 Miranda Viscoli was used to seeing legislation change at the midnight hour. That’s what happened one Friday in 2017 when Viscoli, the co-president of New Mexicans for the Prevention of Gun Violence, was at the New Mexico capitol advocating for a bill that would “get guns out of the hands of domestic violence offenders” by […]

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