Since the 1799 constitution, the governor has been permitted to call the legislature into session somewhere other than the state capital if the capital had, since the last legislative session, "become dangerous from an enemy or from contagious diseases".
Mr. Blumenthal said he went before the legislature last session in an attempt to strengthen his authority to protect whistleblowers from retaliation, but his request for new legislation was turned down.
"I think that this lawsuit is a great springboard for some real reform to happen in the legislature next session," said Rebekah Harriman, executive director of Common Cause in Connecticut, which is a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Andrei Metelsky, the leader of the Moscow City Duma's pro-Kremlin United Russia faction, said during the legislature's session that dissenting opinions were getting much more of a hearing than in Russia's past.
This weekend, in the final days of the Nevada Legislature's session, Mr. Bloomberg's team is concentrating on winning over a handful of Assembly Republicans, hoping a show of bipartisan support would prompt Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, to reconsider a threatened veto.
All that zoos actually offer the public in return for the taxes spent upon them, he said, "is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a state legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling".
The next big problem is the spate of anti-abortion legislation that was rammed through the legislature this session.
Here's my list of the best reporting on the Colorado state legislature this session, from a progressive perspective.
Among the powers appropriated to the governor in the constitution are the ability to grant pardons, veto legislation, and call the legislature into session.
Following the British seizure of Castine in September 1814, Strong called the legislature into session early in October to respond to the occupation.
