She also hopes to elevate Judge Zachary Hillman, associate justice of the District Court since 2021, to serve as a judge in the Appeals Court.
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If Shortsleeve wins his bid for the corner office, he pledged to take away the money that covers legislative operations, salaries and leadership stipends. His campaign pegged that dollar amount at about $110 million.
“Without exaggeration, we are living through the largest unregulated extraction of information in the history of civilization,” said Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier, of Pittsfield, on the House floor.
If it clears the Senate and is signed into law, the bill would take effect Monday, June 8 and expire Friday, July 31, and enable bars to push last call to 3 a.m. “subject to approval of the local licensing authority.”
The House’s top Republican described the controversial bill as an ” sandwich with extra pickles.”
Another series of twists arrived in the audit-the-Legislature saga as the Senate voted to provide some documents while insisting that their move in no way concedes that Diana DiZoglio has a constitutional right to probe lawmakers.
Don’t expect a tidy resolution now that the state’s highest court has stamped an initial mark on the auditor’s long-running crusade to probe the House and Senate.
One bill would ban anyone in Massachusetts from manufacturing, selling, possessing or operating a robotic device equipped with a weapon. Violators would face mandatory prison sentences of between 18 months and five years, with tougher penalties for repeat offenses.