Lena M. Lee is a research librarian for the South Carolina Legislative Council.

Brian L. Takeshita is the chief clerk of the House of Representatives in Hawaii.

Mississippi and West Virginia joined the list of states that have signed legislation to remove the lifetime ban on public benefits for those formerly convicted of drug-related crimes, joining the Virgin Islands, Washington, D.C., and twenty-two...

“States are a great laboratory of wonderful ideas,” U.S. Representative Tom Graves (R-Ga.), vice chair of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, said last week during a hearing on “Modernizing Legislative...

The Double Jeopardy Clause provides that no person may be “twice put in jeopardy” “for the same offence.” Per the “dual-sovereignty” doctrine, the Supreme Court has long held that a “crime under one...

The Flores settlement requires that minors in INS custody must be housed in facilities that meet certain standards, including state standards for housing and care of dependent children.