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Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling saying states can force online shoppers to pay sales taxes could produce a special legislative session in Mississippi to earmark new money for roads and bridges. Revenue Commissioner Herb Frierson said after the 5-4 ruling that he estimates Mississippi will collect $30 million to $50 million in additional taxes in the budget year beginning July 1. He estimates $50 million to $75 million the following year.
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown introduces bill to end voter roll cleanups based on electoral inaction and failing to respond to mailed notifications. Ohio's top Democratic elected official is fighting the state's process when it comes to scratching voters off the rolls.
And wire reports New Hampshire online retailers could be on the hook to collect sales tax from dozens of states and thousands of locales after the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday upheld South Dakota's online sales tax law.
The US Supreme Court on Thursday gave states the ability to require online and out-of-state retailers to collect and send them state sales taxes. The 5-4 decision overturns a 1992 Supreme Court ruling that prevented the practice.
A major U.S. Supreme Court ruling out Thursday could force New Hampshire businesses to collect a sales tax on behalf of other states. The case of South Dakota v.
Big decision from the Supreme Court this morning - and it will impact you if you are one of the millions of Americans who likes to do shopping online. The court has ruled that online retailers must collect state sales taxes on consumer purchases.
Home goods seller Wayfair and other e-commerce companies had attempted to challenge a South Dakota law that levies taxes on purchases made through certain online retailers. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that states can require retailers to collect and remit sales taxes on out-of-state purchases.
In May, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 1992 federal law that prohibited most states from authorizing sports betting and put the decision in the hands of individual states.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has launched a process to amend its use of the "disparate impact" standard in fair lending rules. The legal standard, which can be used to punish lenders for discriminatory effects even if none were intended, has long been unpopular with banks.
The high court announced this week it will consider a Grant County case that questions the limits of the government's ability to take money or other property from criminal suspects.
Democrats hoped a Wisconsin case would be the vehicle the U.S. Supreme Court would use to strike down highly partisan gerrymandering of electoral maps. When those hopes fizzled Monday, attention turned to North Carolina.
There's an interesting sentence in a fund-raising letter I just received from the Claremont Institute . The Claremont, California-based think tank, which publishes the excellent Claremont Review of Books quarterly, has as their overarching theme "Recovering the American Idea: The mission of the Claremont Institute is to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life."
A federal judge ruled Monday that Kansas cannot require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, finding such laws violate the constitutional right to vote in a ruling with national implications. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson is the latest setback for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has championed such laws and led President Donald Trump's now-defunct voter fraud commission.
THE BRAD BLOG IS STILL FREE FOR ALL! HELP US KEEP IT THAT WAY IN OUR 15TH YEAR! Just a glimpse of what happened over the past week via the eyes of the world's political cartoonists, as one of them lost his job this week for being too critical of Donald J. Trump... GOPers turning on Pruitt; Antarctica's ice melting 3x times faster; DNC bans fossil fuel donations; Flooding doubled over last 30 yrs; PLUS: Energy Dept: E-cars cheapest to drive... Trump's G7 debacle over climate; CA electric co. faulted for deadly fires; EPA overhauls cost-benefit analyses; PLUS : Growing movement to ban single-use plastics... Also: SCOTUS approves radical OH vote purge scheme; L.A. won't rule out hacking in 'print error' that left 118k off rolls; Callers ring in... 'PDiddie' features several recent toons by award-winning staff cartoonist Rob Rogers which were, remarkably enough, spiked by the paper's new RW ... (more)
"It is ridiculous that the court entrusted with protecting our constitutional rights finds procedural semantics more important than a glaring perversion of our democracy." WASHINGTON - This morning, following the Supreme Court's decision to punt on the two partisan gerrymandering cases it was considering in Wisconsin and Maryland, the Chair of the Patriotic Millionaires Morris Pearl, former managing director at BlackRock, Inc., released the following statement: "The Supreme Court decided today to sidestep justice and punt on ensuring all Americans have equal political representation.
The Supreme Court is resolving partisan redistricting cases from Wisconsin and Maryland without ruling on the broader issue of whether electoral maps can give an unfair advantage to a political party. The justices unanimously ruled against Wisconsin Democrats who challenged legislative districts that gave Republicans a huge edge in the state legislature.
People lined up, in Oct. 2017, outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington to hear arguments in a case about political maps in Wisconsin that could affect elections across the country. The justices ruled against Wisconsin Democrats who challenged legislative districts that gave Republicans a huge edge in the state legislature.