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We are weary. We are tired. We have had enough gun violence in Louisville. We have had enough gun violence in our country and it is time to take action. And so as mayor, I know I will be working with elected officials … with clergy with anyone who wants to be a part of the solution to take whatever actions we can to encourage our state legislatures to take action to give us more tools to end gun violence. – Craig Greenberg	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Attacks, through state legislatures, on the ballot measure process have been pretty consistent and pretty aggressive for the last several (election) cycles. – Kelly Hall	Found on CNN 1 year ago
State legislatures and governors should not stand in the way of local governments taking action to reduce local pollution. – Judith Enck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Through our new report, the State of Representation 2022, we discovered that while state legislatures are still overwhelmingly pale, stale, and male, the composition of these elected bodies is rapidly changing, since 2020, Latina and Black women legislators have made significant gains in representation and now outnumber their male colleagues. – Ghida Dagher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Sadly, most of those state legislatures essentially disregarded the good work of the advisory commissions. – Kathay Feng	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If we don't make progress in state legislatures through this work, there's a question whether the Democratic presidential candidate should spend a dime in these states in 2024. – Daniel Squadron	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The idea that Trump, Trumpism and anti-democratic authoritarianism are separate, or emanate from the Oval Office is the crisis, they're the same thing. And they've been alive and well in state legislatures, going back, certainly going back 40 years. – Daniel Squadron	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It demonstrates that the trend of this being sort of a hot button and top political issue in state legislatures is continuing. And also gives us reason to worry that the passage of these new restrictive laws may also continue. – Sean Morales-Doyle	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I was right and everyone knows it, if there is fraud or large scale irregularities, it would have been appropriate to send those votes back to the legislatures to figure it out. The Dems and RINOs want to take The Dems and RINOs right away. A great opportunity lost, but not forever, in the meantime our Country is going to hell ! – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Roe v. Wade stands as a pillar of health freedom for every person, but today, this historic victory now faces its most alarming threat in decades from right-wing forces, including in state legislatures and on the Supreme Court. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think what the president was doing was raising the issue and highlighting that a lot of these bills that are being passed around the country by Republican legislatures on party-line votes could pose a problem in the 2022 election, especially if you look at some of the laws that would allow people to subvert the election or ignore the will of voters, i think that in his way, he was highlighting the fact that there are threats out there, and I think that those threats are real. – Cedric Richmond	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They want to make it to where candidates that you may not even agree with or approve get money from taxpayers. I mean, it's just ridiculous what they're trying to do here to federalize these elections when it's perfectly clear in our Constitution in Article Two, Section One, Clause Two that the state legislatures are given the right exclusively to set the voting laws in the states and in the union. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Fair Fight Action's work with dedicated voting rights activists throughout Georgia has led to enormous gains in voter registrations in our state -- particularly among voters of color, who have helped spearhead advocacy for critical federal voting rights legislation to protect our democracy while also blocking Republicans' most dangerous anti-voter proposals in state legislatures, now, with the GOP's voter suppression campaign ramping up in state houses across the country, Fair Fight Action is proud to join with Michelle Obama and When We All Vote alongside other civil and voting rights organizations to fight back against Republicans' anti-voter agenda. We're ready to work with our allies to recruit new volunteers and keep organizing Americans to push for the Senate to pass new federal protections for voting rights at a time when we need them more than ever. – Hillary Holley	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s not conspiracy. They control the state legislatures, they changed the rules legally, so it was a legal, fair election. However, that doesn’t mean the rules weren't maximized by one party over the other party. That’s what I’m saying going into 2024. We need to make sure that we understand the rules as a Republican Party, and we use them fully to our advantage going forward in 2024, so that we're deploying the same assets in an election equally on each side of the aisle. – Tom Reed	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Stage legislatures were having difficulties sometimes with their executive office of the governors, they were fighting the federal government, whether it be with mandated lockdowns or implied mandated lockdowns...and having served in the state legislature in Arizona for a while, it seemed to me we spend so much time responding to federal issues, it would be good if we could get some synergy back and forth and open up communication that might be more direct between the Freedom Caucus and conservative members of Congress and the conservative members of the state legislatures, we grappled with how best to do that, and once we came to this idea that we should have state affiliated freedom caucuses, and then the question was how do you implement, how do you create the infrastructure to do that, and that's what we've been working on for quite some time. – Andy Biggs	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
President Biden’s weaponization of federal agencies against the interests of states is wrong and will only serve to sow more skepticism of the federal government. Whether it’s trying to force masks on kids in schools or trying to overturn state laws enacted by duly elected state legislatures, it’s wrong, as Montanans' attorney general, I will continue to fight alongside other attorneys general to fight the Biden administration’s meddling in our states’ affairs. – Austin Knudsen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Redistricting... this federal bill would really take the politics out of it, which has been the problem when it comes to the maps. Especially at this juncture that we're at with redistricting with new numbers coming out from the Census and all of us getting ready for the process in state legislatures. – Annette Taddeo	Found on CNN 2 years ago
From the majority of agencies typically in my area in Central Puget Sound, they say we understand the Legislatures intent, we agree with the intent to use this force to have more equitable treatment of people in the community. – Roger Goodman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we have seen since the Jim Crow era. This is Jim Crow in new clothes, since the January election, some 250 voter suppression bills have been introduced by state legislatures all across the country – from Georgia to Arizona, from New Hampshire to Florida – [all] using the Big Lie of voter fraud as a pretext for voter suppression. – Raphael Warnock	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
These attacks against trans youth in Arkansas and in states around the country will not go unchallenged — not while they are debated in legislatures, not after they pass, not when they are discussed in public conversation, our work will not be done until every law that targets transgender people is struck down as unconstitutional and all transgender people are able to live without fearing discrimination and violence because of who we are. – Chase Strangio	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think this dynamic that we're seeing is the political pendulum swinging, there are some extremist Republican legislatures that are polarized, and they have been more successful and determined really to ignore the will of their constituents. – Shannon Watts	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's certainly possible that if qualified immunity went away, that would be an indication to law enforcement that legislatures were not protecting them, but I think that would be based on a myth as opposed to the way in which it actually functions on the ground. – Joanna Schwartz	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Let's see whether or not somebody has the courage, whether it's legislators or legislatures or a justice of the The Pennsylvania Supreme Court or a number of justices of The Pennsylvania Supreme Court. – Donald TrumpThe	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Every American who cares about our constitutional system and free and fair elections should demand a full adjudication on the merits and a remedy for the corruption that has occurred, whether in court or state legislatures. – Jenna Ellis	Found on Reuters 3 years ago

We are weary. We are tired. We have had enough gun violence in Louisville. We have had enough gun violence in our country and it is time to take action. And so as mayor, I know I will be working with elected officials … with clergy with anyone who wants to be a part of the solution to take whatever actions we can to encourage our state legislatures to take action to give us more tools to end gun violence.

– Craig Greenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Attacks, through state legislatures, on the ballot measure process have been pretty consistent and pretty aggressive for the last several (election) cycles.

– Kelly Hall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

State legislatures and governors should not stand in the way of local governments taking action to reduce local pollution.

– Judith Enck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Through our new report, the State of Representation 2022, we discovered that while state legislatures are still overwhelmingly pale, stale, and male, the composition of these elected bodies is rapidly changing, since 2020, Latina and Black women legislators have made significant gains in representation and now outnumber their male colleagues.

– Ghida Dagher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sadly, most of those state legislatures essentially disregarded the good work of the advisory commissions.

– Kathay Feng

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we don't make progress in state legislatures through this work, there's a question whether the Democratic presidential candidate should spend a dime in these states in 2024.

– Daniel Squadron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The idea that Trump, Trumpism and anti-democratic authoritarianism are separate, or emanate from the Oval Office is the crisis, they're the same thing. And they've been alive and well in state legislatures, going back, certainly going back 40 years.

– Daniel Squadron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It demonstrates that the trend of this being sort of a hot button and top political issue in state legislatures is continuing. And also gives us reason to worry that the passage of these new restrictive laws may also continue.

– Sean Morales-Doyle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was right and everyone knows it, if there is fraud or large scale irregularities, it would have been appropriate to send those votes back to the legislatures to figure it out. The Dems and RINOs want to take The Dems and RINOs right away. A great opportunity lost, but not forever, in the meantime our Country is going to hell !

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Roe v. Wade stands as a pillar of health freedom for every person, but today, this historic victory now faces its most alarming threat in decades from right-wing forces, including in state legislatures and on the Supreme Court.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think what the president was doing was raising the issue and highlighting that a lot of these bills that are being passed around the country by Republican legislatures on party-line votes could pose a problem in the 2022 election, especially if you look at some of the laws that would allow people to subvert the election or ignore the will of voters, i think that in his way, he was highlighting the fact that there are threats out there, and I think that those threats are real.

– Cedric Richmond

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They want to make it to where candidates that you may not even agree with or approve get money from taxpayers. I mean, it's just ridiculous what they're trying to do here to federalize these elections when it's perfectly clear in our Constitution in Article Two, Section One, Clause Two that the state legislatures are given the right exclusively to set the voting laws in the states and in the union.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Fair Fight Action's work with dedicated voting rights activists throughout Georgia has led to enormous gains in voter registrations in our state -- particularly among voters of color, who have helped spearhead advocacy for critical federal voting rights legislation to protect our democracy while also blocking Republicans' most dangerous anti-voter proposals in state legislatures, now, with the GOP's voter suppression campaign ramping up in state houses across the country, Fair Fight Action is proud to join with Michelle Obama and When We All Vote alongside other civil and voting rights organizations to fight back against Republicans' anti-voter agenda. We're ready to work with our allies to recruit new volunteers and keep organizing Americans to push for the Senate to pass new federal protections for voting rights at a time when we need them more than ever.

– Hillary Holley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s not conspiracy. They control the state legislatures, they changed the rules legally, so it was a legal, fair election. However, that doesn’t mean the rules weren't maximized by one party over the other party. That’s what I’m saying going into 2024. We need to make sure that we understand the rules as a Republican Party, and we use them fully to our advantage going forward in 2024, so that we're deploying the same assets in an election equally on each side of the aisle.

– Tom Reed

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Stage legislatures were having difficulties sometimes with their executive office of the governors, they were fighting the federal government, whether it be with mandated lockdowns or implied mandated lockdowns...and having served in the state legislature in Arizona for a while, it seemed to me we spend so much time responding to federal issues, it would be good if we could get some synergy back and forth and open up communication that might be more direct between the Freedom Caucus and conservative members of Congress and the conservative members of the state legislatures, we grappled with how best to do that, and once we came to this idea that we should have state affiliated freedom caucuses, and then the question was how do you implement, how do you create the infrastructure to do that, and that's what we've been working on for quite some time.

– Andy Biggs

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

President Biden’s weaponization of federal agencies against the interests of states is wrong and will only serve to sow more skepticism of the federal government. Whether it’s trying to force masks on kids in schools or trying to overturn state laws enacted by duly elected state legislatures, it’s wrong, as Montanans' attorney general, I will continue to fight alongside other attorneys general to fight the Biden administration’s meddling in our states’ affairs.

– Austin Knudsen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Redistricting... this federal bill would really take the politics out of it, which has been the problem when it comes to the maps. Especially at this juncture that we're at with redistricting with new numbers coming out from the Census and all of us getting ready for the process in state legislatures.

– Annette Taddeo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

From the majority of agencies typically in my area in Central Puget Sound, they say we understand the Legislatures intent, we agree with the intent to use this force to have more equitable treatment of people in the community.

– Roger Goodman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we have seen since the Jim Crow era. This is Jim Crow in new clothes, since the January election, some 250 voter suppression bills have been introduced by state legislatures all across the country – from Georgia to Arizona, from New Hampshire to Florida – [all] using the Big Lie of voter fraud as a pretext for voter suppression.

– Raphael Warnock

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These attacks against trans youth in Arkansas and in states around the country will not go unchallenged — not while they are debated in legislatures, not after they pass, not when they are discussed in public conversation, our work will not be done until every law that targets transgender people is struck down as unconstitutional and all transgender people are able to live without fearing discrimination and violence because of who we are.

– Chase Strangio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think this dynamic that we're seeing is the political pendulum swinging, there are some extremist Republican legislatures that are polarized, and they have been more successful and determined really to ignore the will of their constituents.

– Shannon Watts

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's certainly possible that if qualified immunity went away, that would be an indication to law enforcement that legislatures were not protecting them, but I think that would be based on a myth as opposed to the way in which it actually functions on the ground.

– Joanna Schwartz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Let's see whether or not somebody has the courage, whether it's legislators or legislatures or a justice of the The Pennsylvania Supreme Court or a number of justices of The Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

– Donald TrumpThe

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Every American who cares about our constitutional system and free and fair elections should demand a full adjudication on the merits and a remedy for the corruption that has occurred, whether in court or state legislatures.

– Jenna Ellis

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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