Podcasts

Draw the Line: States Rock the Redistricting Maps

Mary Anne Peck — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 17:11:18 GMT

For a long time, redistricting has admittedly been an issue that appeals to only the wonkiest among us. But given the hyperpartisan times we live in, how state legislative maps are being drawn has become one of the most hotly debated and closely watched issues of the year. For this show, we are joined by one of the nation’s foremost experts on redistricting, Ben Williams, Program Principal for Elections & Redistricting for the National Conference of State Legislatures, to get to the nitty-gritty of one truly messy aspect of political sausage-making.

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The State of State Voting Laws

Mary Anne Peck — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 17:08:21 GMT

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last two years, you know that the debate over how to best ensure that states have fair elections with adequate access for all eligible voters has been one of the most intense of our time. As one might imagine with such a hyperpartisan issue in the age of misinformation, it can be hard to know exactly what is actually going on in regard to voting access, early voting, voting by mail, voter ID, etc.

To help us better understand where states are with all of this, in this episode Deep Dive host Rich Ehisen welcomes one of the country’s foremost experts on voting issues, Wendy Underhill, Director of Elections and Redistricting for the National Conference of State Legislatures.

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Data Privacy and Beyond

Mary Anne Peck — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 17:04:50 GMT

This week SNCJ Managing Editor Rich Ehisen is joined by NetChoice Policy Counsel

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Vaccine Mandates go to the Supreme Court

Mary Anne Peck — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:46:05 GMT

This week SNCJ Managing Editor Rich Ehisen is joined by Law360 Editor-at-Large for Employment Vin Gurrieri to analyze two high profile cases that threaten to torpedo President Joe Biden's efforts to require between 80 and 100 million U.S. workers to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.

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The Intersection of State and Federal Balance Billing Regulation

Mary Anne Peck — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:37:30 GMT

This week our host Rich Ehisen is joined by Professor Maanasa Kona of the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) in Washington D.C. and Loren Adler, Associate Director of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, a partnership between Economic Studies at Brookings and the University of Southern California Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics for an interesting discussion of an intersection of state and federal health insurance billing policies

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The Great Resignation

Mary Anne Peck — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:35:11 GMT

State Net Capitol Journal Managing Editor Rich Ehisen is joined by Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Faculty Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University, and Julia Pollak, Chief Economist at Zip Recruiter as they discuss what America's employment evolution could mean for employers and workers in the new year.

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2021 Legislative Review

Mary Anne Peck — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:32:37 GMT

State Net Capitol Journal Managing Editor Rich Ehisen is joined by our own Lou Cannon and Wendy Underhill of NCSL to talk about police reform and voting/elections issues.

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Introducing: Legislative Deep Dive

Mary Anne Peck — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 23:53:49 GMT

Here's what you can expect with the Legislative Deep Dive Podcast. Brought to you by LexisNexis and hosted by State Net Capitol Journal Managing Editor Rich Ehisen.

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The Legal Challenge to CA's Board Diversity Law

Alainna — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 21:44:39 GMT

When Gov. Jerry Brown signed California's first-in-the-nation board diversity law (AB 979) in 2018, he did so with the acknowledgement that it would likely be challenged in court and that it had "flaws" that "may prove fatal to its ultimate implementation."

He proved prophetic, as in early April Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Green sided with Judicial Watch, the activist group that had filed suit seeking to invalidate the law. But that hardly ends the story.

While we watch to see if the state will appeal Judge Green's ruling, a new bill in the California Assembly (AB 1840) would actually expand the law's reach even further by adding numerous cultural groups and the disabled to those covered by the law.

In this episode, SNCJ Managing Editor Rich Ehisen is joined by Jennifer Rubin, head of the ESG Practice Group for the Mintz law firm in San Diego, to better understand the law, the court case and the potential future of both as we go forward.

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The State of States' Sanctions on Russia

Alainna — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 13:49:08 GMT

A growing number of U.S. states have imposed their own sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. But are those sanctions legal? And what other tools might states have at their disposal to show support for the U.S. government's sanctions against Russia's universally-condemned actions against Ukraine?

In this episode, Deep Dive host Rich Ehisen talks with U.C. Berkeley assistant professor of finance Anastassia Fedyk about state-level sanctions, the impact of free market actions against Russia and the pressure states will face in the light of President Biden blocking further imports of Russian oil and gas.

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