The Legislation Law Prof Blog often features policy advocacy undertaken by law students around the nation. Today, I’m excited to spotlight the work of my own students in Seattle University’s new Homeless Rights Advocacy Project. The students are releasing four
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Bipartisan Agreement to Make Massive Changes to Medicare
A bipartisan bill, H.R. 2, Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization ACT, would repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, which sets a cap on physician spending, and would revamp payment of physicians under Medicare. On March 26, 2015 the…
Republicans Propose to Block Funding for Critical Benefits
Since the 1900s, Congressional Republicans have proposed block grant style funding for Medicaid. A block grant is a fixed amount of money allocated from the federal government to states in order to support social assistance programs. On Tuesday, March 17,…
Oregon’s “Motor Voter” Bill Becomes Nation’s First Automatic Voter Registration Law
Amidst the passage of increasingly restrictive voter ID laws, Oregon’s current governor, Kate Brown, recently signed a groundbreaking piece of voting legislation for the state. House Bill 2177 was passed on Monday, and is the first of its kind…
Death Penalty Repeal in Nebraska? Firing Squad in Utah? Could Happen…
By Kevin Barry
Last week, Utah’s Senate cleared the way for using the firing squad when lethal-injection drugs are unavailable. This week, death penalty opponents urged Governor Gary Herbert to veto the bill. Herbert says he’s “leaning toward” signing. For more on methods…
On Right to Work, Part 3: Imagining new models, and policies, for unionism
By COWS
This post was written by Nate Ela, of COWSHalf of the states in the U.S. now have “right to work” laws on the books. As earlier posts this week have discussed, such laws do not create anything resembling a real right…
On Right to Work, Part 2: Envisioning a *real* right to work, from a French revolutionary to Frank Underwood, via FDR.
By COWS
This post was written by Nate Ela, of COWSYesterday’s post sought to understand why Scott Walker might have rebranded “right to work” as “freedom to work.” Among other things, his move makes one wonder if conservatives might be concerned…
On Right to Work, Part 1: Governor Walker’s Hohfeldian Moment of Truthiness
By COWS
This post was written by Nate Ela, of COWSYesterday, Wisconsin governor and all-but-official presidential candidate Scott Walker signed a so-called “right to work” bill into law. It was published today. Wisconsin is now the 25th state with such a law. But…
Catching up on news from the states
By COWS
In case you missed them, some interesting articles came out late last week concerning legislative developments in the states.
ProPublica and NPR reported extensively on the ways in which many states have been rolling back worker compensation benefits in recent
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The Crime of Homelessness & Guest Blog by UC Berkeley’s Policy Advocacy Clinic
By Sara Rankin
Increasingly, cities across the nation are making it a crime to experience homelessness. As the Director of the new Homeless Rights Advocacy Project at the Seattle University School of Law (HRAP), I’m fortunate to work alongside amazing community advocates and…