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The Cornhuskers held one of the "Last Four Byes" as a No. 10 seed in ESPN's bracket projection on Tuesday. Picking up a sixth Quad 1 win, though, will require Nebraska to avenge its 69-66 road ...
Two competing questions on the subject are likely to appear on the November ballot: One would add a right to abortion to the state constitution. The other would enshrine in the state constitution ...
After a video of the event was released, Erdman, Halloran, and state senator Tom Brewer were outspoken in criticism of the grad student and UNL that it was hostile to conservative viewpoints. A group of 70 UN faculty accused the senators and Nebraska governor Pete Ricketts of being politically motivated in their criticism and seeking to damage ...
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen said Tuesday that he has “no plans to call a special session” to change the way the state allocates electoral votes to a winner-take-all system, ending an effort led ...
Stenberg v. Carhart, 530 U.S. 914 (2000), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court dealing with a Nebraska law which made performing "partial-birth abortion" illegal, without regard for the health of the mother. [1]
Nebraska Initiative 416, officially titled "Ban Same-Sex Marriage Act", was a 2000 ballot initiative that amended the Nebraska Constitution to make it unconstitutional for the state to recognize or perform same-sex marriage, same-sex civil unions or domestic partnerships. [2] The referendum was approved on November 7, 2000, by 70% of the voters ...
This meant that by 1832 every state but South Carolina entrusted voters with the right to choose their presidential electors, and by 1836, all but South Carolina adopted the unit rule.
On July 1, 2015, the Eighth Circuit lifted the stay it had imposed on Judge Bataillon's order, allowing his prohibition on the enforcement of Nebraska's denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples to take effect. [30] On February 6, 2016, Judge Bataillon issued a permanent injunction striking down the state's defunct same-sex marriage ban.