Page 12 - Seventeenth Amendment News Today

In this first of a series of columns, Illinois Law dean Vikram David Amar and professor Jason Mazzone identify and analyze some of the Seventeenth Amendment issues presented in a case pending before the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Dean Amar and Professor Mazzone consider whether a state can hold a special election while the Senate seat is still occupied, and whether the possibility of a substantial lag between a special election and actual replacement matters.

An attorney is asking an Oklahoma court to stop the state’s special election for Sen. James Inhofe’s (R-Okla.) seat.

A new book aims to recover the Constitution’s pivotal role in shaping claims of justice and equality.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Yaakob,Malaysia / Premier r Table of contents 1. How are senators elected Malaysia? 2. Is a senator a member of Parliament? 3. Who appointed senators? 4. Who becomes the Prime Minister? 5. How is Prime Minister elected in Malaysia? 6. How do you become Prime Minister? 7. Who is 9th Prime Minister of Malaysia? 8. […]

When the drafters of the U.S. Constitution began debating the legislature, they ran into a thorny problem: how to allocate legislators in a way that was...

S. 4/H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, would give liberal bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) the power to veto changes of polling place locations, voter ID and registration requirements, and the boundary lines in redistricting in every single state.

Abolish the filibuster, tweeted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on June 2.

ILLUSTRATION BY GEORGE BATES In October 1829, some of the last surviving leaders of America’s founding generation gathered in Richmond, Virginia, for a state constitutional convention. Two issues dominated the gathering: suffrage and apportionment. Virginia’s 1776 constitution, drafted in the crucible of revolution, had limited the vote to white men who owned a certain amount of property. It also drew the General Assembly’s electoral districts to heavily favor the plantation-dominated Tid...

In the Texas history column, Ken Bridges looks at an incident in the life of Sam Houston and how the legendary Texas politician put integrity first