No one expected the law to go into effect; the legislators assumed that it would be the subject of an immediate legal challenge, and then "journey through the appellate system and toward the Supreme Court".
Being represented by a female legislator, for example, increases the probability that your lawmaker will intervene with an agency by about eight percentage points — even after taking into account the legislator's ideology and the district's demographics.
The guerrillas entered the provincial legislature building disguised as a military bomb squad, herded the legislators into a vehicle and whisked them away.
It says something about the state of the South that what helped shame the legislators into getting the job done was a speech not by one of their black colleagues but by Representative Jenny Anderson Horne, a descendant of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy.
And even if the anti-lottery statute might be a surreptitious expansion of federal authority into an area traditionally reserved to the states, he wrote that the Court must not inquire into the motives of the legislators.
The next morning, Jack Jouett rode into the city, warning the legislators that 250 light cavalrymen under Banastre Tarleton were approaching.
Understanding that "inherently weaker" women could not be forced back into the home, legislators opted instead to create a protective, home-like haven in the workplace for women by requiring separate restrooms, along with separate dressing rooms and resting rooms.
In a bid to control immigration numbers — and in particular to curb drug and contraband smuggling into the United States — legislators turned to immigration laws as a means to quickly identify and remove immigrants involved in these activities.
Working into the night, legislators passed the state's first-ever plan for regulating underground water supplies.
And as salad gave way to burritos and finally to cr me brlee, the legislators got into it.
