| Excerpt: | Read what elected officials, advocacy organizations, and other think tanks are saying about the Washington State Supreme Court's decision upholding the capital gains tax on the wealthy. |
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| Published at: | 11:57 AM on Friday, March 24th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Breaking News |
| Tags: | Fiscal Responsibility, Strong Commonwealth |
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Category Archives: Litigation
A roundup of reaction to the Supreme Court’s Quinn ruling upholding WA’s capital gains tax
VICTORY! Washington State Supreme Court upholds new capital gains tax on the wealthy
| Excerpt: | The Court voted 7-2 in favor of finding that Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5096 (the law that created the capital gains tax) is indeed an excise tax. The majority opinion, authored by Associate Justice Debra L. Stephens, also rejected the Quinn plaintiffs' other arguments, affirming the law's constitutionality. |
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| Published at: | 10:37 AM on Friday, March 24th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Breaking News |
| Tags: | Fiscal Responsibility, Strong Commonwealth |
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Whichever way the Supreme Court decides the Quinn case, it will be making public policy
| Excerpt: | Read NPI alum Patrick Stickney's assessment of the oral argument in Quinn et al v. State of Washington et al, the right wing legal challenge to Washington State's new capital gains tax on the wealthy. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Monday, February 20th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Patrick Stickney |
| Other Categories: | Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Budgeting, Fiscal Responsibility, Strong Commonwealth |
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Republicans fail in their attempt to intervene in signature verification legal challenge
| Excerpt: | The Republicans’ philosophy on litigation is never to spend one dollar when two (or more) will do. Judge Shaffer may have saved the party some money, needed until recently (when he announced his candidacy) to pay Trump’s legal bills. |
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| Published at: | 8:55 AM on Monday, February 6th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Fair Elections |
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Impressions from today’s oral arguments in right wing’s capital gains tax legal challenge
| Excerpt: | Here's what it was like to be in the courtroom for oral arguments in Quinn et al v. State of Washington et al, the right wing legal challenge to the constitutionality of our recently enacted capital gains tax on the wealthy. |
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| Published at: | 2:30 PM on Thursday, January 26th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Litigation |
| Tags: | Fiscal Responsibility, Oral Argument, Strong Commonwealth |
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National, state Republicans file against voters in signature verification legal challenge
| Excerpt: | State and national Republicans are filing briefs in a lawsuit that seeks to end the error-filled signature verification process on Washington’s mail-in ballots. The suit they are intervening in alleges that thousands of valid votes get rejected and that rejections hit a disproportionate number of younger, Black, Latino/Latina and disabled voters. |
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| Published at: | 12:20 PM on Monday, January 23rd, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Fair Elections, Signature Verification |
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Washington State Supreme Court rules capital gains tax on wealthy can be collected for now
| Excerpt: | The ruling, requested by Attorney General Bob Ferguson, frees the Department of Revenue (DOR) to proceed with collecting the new capital gains tax, which is a crucial new funding source for education, preschool, and early learning. |
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| Published at: | 1:36 PM on Wednesday, November 30th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Fiscal Responsibility, Strong Commonwealth |
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Grand settlement agreed to by the parties in Tim Eyman’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy case
| Excerpt: | A grand settlement backed by the estate's court-appointed trustee and agreed to by all the parties involved in the right wing activist's Chapter 7 case has been submitted to Bankruptcy Court Judge Marc Barreca for final approval next month, records recently filed with the court and examined by NPI show. |
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| Published at: | 4:47 PM on Friday, July 8th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Litigation |
| Tags: | Permanent Defense, State of Washington v. Tim Eyman |
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The dishonesty of the Dobbs majority
| Excerpt: | "More than a gutting of reproductive rights and women's rights, Dobbs is a breach of trust," attorney Cat Williams writes in this guest post for NPI's Cascadia Advocate. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Wednesday, June 29th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Cat Williams |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Privacy, Reproductive Rights |
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Distract and distort: Republicans declare Alito Court the victim after anti-Roe draft leaks
| Excerpt: | The extreme right wing has moved quickly to distract and distort in the wake of Politico's publication of Samuel Alito's draft opinion holding that the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was egregiously wrong. |
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| Published at: | 6:17 PM on Friday, May 6th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Healthcare, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Reproductive Rights |
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts admits that leaked Alito draft is authentic
| Excerpt: | A draft of a majority opinion overturning the United States Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and leaked to Politico is authentic, Chief Justice John Roberts has admitted in a statement released by the Court. |
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| Published at: | 10:08 AM on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Healthcare, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Reproductive Rights |
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Draft of opinion overturning Roe v. Wade leaks out of the United States Supreme Court
| Excerpt: | Authored by Samuel Alito, one of George W. Bush's two Supreme Court appointees, the draft declares that "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start" and "the decision has had damaging consequences." |
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| Published at: | 8:39 PM on Monday, May 2nd, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Reproductive Rights |
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Redistricting Chair resigns as commissioners deadlock on intervening in federal lawsuit
| Excerpt: | At its March 7th meeting, the four member commission, which is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans -- lost its nonvoting chair, Sarah Augustine, while the commissioners deadlocked on responding to a federal lawsuit that alleges the Voting Rights Act wasn't followed when the new maps were drawn. |
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| Published at: | 9:36 PM on Monday, March 7th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections, Party Politics |
| Tags: | Redistricting |
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With most of his estate now liquidated, Tim Eyman’s bankruptcy is finally winding down