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CHEYENNE – Acknowledging receipt of Gov. Mark Gordon’s veto letters addressed to him in his capacity as Wyoming Secretary of State and in accordance with Article 4, Section 8 of
Gordon thanked lawmakers for including several of his priorities in the state's budget for the next two years and issued more than two dozen line-item vetoes over the weekend.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The New York City Council voted on Tuesday to override Mayor Eric Adams' vetoes of two bills it passed last month, one banning solitary confinement in city jails, the other requiring police to record lower-level investigative stops of civilians. In passing the bills with veto-proof majorities in December, lawmakers called solitary confinement cruel and torturous, and said it leads to heightened risks of injury or death for people in custody. The mayor and the labor union representing the city's jail guards argued the ban would make it more difficult to protect jail workers and detainees.
The City Council voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to override Mayor Adams’ vetoes of the How Many Stops Act, which will expand NYPD transparency requirements, and a separate bill banning the use of solitary confinement in city jails. The veto overrides cap a fraught two months for the mayor and City Council Democrats, who have sparred publicly and frequently in a heated debate over the impact of ...
ATTLEBORO — Mayor Cathleen DeSimone has vetoed a unanimous vote by the city council to establish a scholarship fund, citing “procedural” deviations from state law.
The United States has vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council which called for a humanitarian pause in besieged Gaza – sparking more criticism of political paralysis in the powerful global body.
(CNN) — The United States has vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council which called for a humanitarian pause in besieged Gaza – sparking more criticism of political
North Carolina Republicans enacted vote-count restrictions and weakened the governor's ability to oversee elections and other state regulatory bodies on Tuesday by overriding Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's vetoes. In a series of votes, the narrow GOP supermajorities in the House and Senate overturned five Cooper vetoes, two of which address elections and voting in the ninth-largest state — a likely presidential battleground where statewide races usually are very close.
(CNN) — Republican lawmakers in North Carolina on Tuesday enacted major changes to the state’s election laws, overriding vetoes by the state’s Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who has criticized the