Word: legalism
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California is the poster child for dysfunctional state finance. A week past the legal deadline for passing a budget, the state has yet to close a $26 billion hole. State workers are - yet again - being told to stay home. The National Park Service is threatening to take back parks it gave to California should the state try to save money by closing them. Taxpayers are getting IOUs in the mail instead of refund checks since there's no cash to pay them what they're owed. You can now buy the IOUs on eBay...
...Hillel to handle press inquiries about the fraud, confirmed that the organization cited in the Attorney General's release referred to Harvard Hillel. She said that there was "no delay in [Hillel's] taking the appropriate course of action" upon discovery of the irregularities, and that Hillel immediately hired legal counsel to explore possible responses. Lawyers had advised Hillel not to make the discoveries known to the public until now in order to avoid compromising the Attorney General's investigation, she said...
Monahan and Pierre declined to say if any money has been recovered thus far, citing the ongoing investigation and legal actions...
...Washington Voting Rights Act Stays Alive In a highly anticipated Supreme Court ruling, the 1965 Voting Rights Act survived a legal challenge that many analysts expected to topple the landmark civil rights law. The court's 8-to-1 decision sidestepped the core constitutional issues in question, keeping intact a key provision of the statute. That measure, Section 5, requires all or parts of 16 states deemed to have a history of racial discrimination to seek federal clearance before changing voting procedures. Critics call the requirement outdated; defenders insist the scrutiny is still needed...
...politician. I think she wants to be an inspirational leader," says representative Mike Doogan, an Anchorage Democrat. "She has the opportunity to make a drop-dead amount of money in the next 18 months." Without resigning, she might have been looking at more than $1 million in legal fees over her remaining 16 months in office. Now she's looking at an unlimited, and very green, horizon...