Clear Statements is a recurring series by Abbe R. Gluck on civil litigation and the modern regulatory and statutory state. Rumors of the textualist triumph over legislative history have been greatly ...

As debate dragged through the night and into the morning last week on the proposed income tax on people earning more than $1 million a year, descriptions of the length began to crop up. But with ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When the longtime state representative serving her district in north-central New ...

The New York Court of Appeals announced that friend-of-the-court briefs on cases about legislative intent and statutes may no longer present lawmakers' views expressed outside of the publicly ...

Lobbying for an advantage is an art Tallahasseeans have demonstrated from the very beginning of the city's founding as the state's administrative center. Samuel Fry is but a footnote in John Phelps' ...

Senate hearings on S. 3880 -- House hearings on H.R. 12616 -- Senate report no. 1811 (S. 3880) -- Senate committee comparative print -- House report no. 2360 (S. 3880) -- Conference report, House ...