Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is doubling down on her vow to drive gasoline prices to less than $2 per gallon if she’s elected president, a pledge that 2012 GOP rival Jon Huntsman said isn’t rooted in the “real world.”
Though he has largely been ignored as a viable potential candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is indeed "seriously looking at" entering the race and would focus his candidacy on the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire if he jumps in, a top aide told RCP on Friday. “He is actively thinking about it,” senior Giuliani adviser Jake Menges said. “He wants to make sure that if he gets into this that he can win. Our belief is that the New Hampshire primary is still wide open. We don’t see any reason why a decision has to be made right now.”
“He is actively thinking about it,” senior Giuliani adviser Jake Menges said. “He wants to make sure that if he gets into this that he can win. Our belief is that the New Hampshire primary is still wide open. We don’t see any reason why a decision has to be made right now.”
The Arizona Coalition of Domestic Violence says Arizona enacted an unconstitutional law that excludes its members from the state's Working Poor Tax Credit Program "on the sole basis that they discuss abortion with the vulnerable women that they serve." The coalition says Arizona HB 2384 is unconstitutionally vague and violates the 1st and 14th Amendments.
The coalition says Arizona HB 2384 is unconstitutionally vague and violates the 1st and 14th Amendments.
In approving one of the strongest photo ID requirements in the country for voters, GOP lawmakers and Gov. Scott Walker violated a few little-noted paragraphs of the state constitution - so say opponents of the law who are preparing a legal challenge to it. [...] A lawsuit being prepared by the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin will allege that the law violates right to vote provisions of the state constitution not present in the U.S. Constitution. The group plans to file its lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court, its attorney Lester Pines said. "It is absolutely clear that the Legislature paid no attention to the (right to vote) provisions of the Wisconsin Constitution when it passed voter ID," Pines said. "I'm not aware of any point in which they came up." Pines said that requiring a photo ID amounts to another restriction on voting that isn't authorized by the state constitution. He said that small numbers of state residents are citizens but lack a birth certificate because of unusual circumstances in their lives, making it difficult to obtain an ID.
A lawsuit being prepared by the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin will allege that the law violates right to vote provisions of the state constitution not present in the U.S. Constitution. The group plans to file its lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court, its attorney Lester Pines said.
"It is absolutely clear that the Legislature paid no attention to the (right to vote) provisions of the Wisconsin Constitution when it passed voter ID," Pines said. "I'm not aware of any point in which they came up."
Pines said that requiring a photo ID amounts to another restriction on voting that isn't authorized by the state constitution. He said that small numbers of state residents are citizens but lack a birth certificate because of unusual circumstances in their lives, making it difficult to obtain an ID.
New York City’s now-rejected push to ban the use of food stamps to purchase soda was a political pariah from the get-go. The proposal, sent to the Obama administration last fall, had the relatively rare ability to draw the ire of both soft drink lobbyists and advocates for the poor and underfed. On Friday, the USDA shot down the idea, which would have required a waiver from the food stamps program. In a letter to a New York state official, quoted by the New York Times, the Agriculture Department “wrote that the waiver the city sought was denied because of the logistical difficulty of sorting out which beverages could or could not be purchased with food stamps,” among other reasons. Lost in the political debate over New York City’s proposal: Would the proposal have actually worked? Does banning the use of food stamps to purchase soft drinks actually reduce consumption of soft drinks, thereby lowering obesity rates? Recent food policy research suggests the proposal would have had a tough time making an impact.
On Friday, the USDA shot down the idea, which would have required a waiver from the food stamps program. In a letter to a New York state official, quoted by the New York Times, the Agriculture Department “wrote that the waiver the city sought was denied because of the logistical difficulty of sorting out which beverages could or could not be purchased with food stamps,” among other reasons.
Lost in the political debate over New York City’s proposal: Would the proposal have actually worked? Does banning the use of food stamps to purchase soft drinks actually reduce consumption of soft drinks, thereby lowering obesity rates?
Recent food policy research suggests the proposal would have had a tough time making an impact.