Many bills raised by the CT GOP won’t pass, but they make a statement about the party’s identity as it tries to reverse a string of losses.
Mark Pazniokas
Mark is the Capitol Bureau Chief and a co-founder of CT Mirror. He is a frequent contributor to WNPR, a former state politics writer for The Hartford Courant and Journal Inquirer, and contributor for The New York Times.
Posted inImmigration
In Hartford, a judge welcomes new American citizens on Fridays
In a time of much uncertainty in the federal bureaucracy, many still reach the end of their paths to citizenship in a Hartford courtroom.
Posted inPolitics
Lamont’s budget address celebrated CT’s turnaround. What’s next?
Lamont invited legislators to celebrate a string of budget surpluses, then outlined a path of continued prudence, tinged with pragmatism.
Posted inPolitics
Trump ties transportation funding to immigration compliance
Trump plans to link transportation funding to policies on masks, vaccines and immigration enforcement, as well as marriage and birth rates.
Posted inJustice
Raheem Mullin confirmed as chief justice of CT Supreme Court
The General Assembly confirmed Raheem Mullins as chief justice of the CT Supreme Court over the objections of small Republican voting blocs.
Posted inPolitics
Erin Stewart’s ‘major announcement:’ She is not a candidate for governor. Yet.
The young Republican mayor of New Britain laid down a marker for an expected 2026 campaign for governor with a relatively conventional pitch.
Posted inPolitics
Lamont picks William Bright for CT Supreme Court
Gov. Lamont also nominated 13 people to the Superior Court, including former lawmakers Michael D’Agostino and Kevin Kelly.
Posted inJustice
Lamont, who diversified CT’s judiciary, set to nominate more judges
Gov. Ned Lamont will nominate a Supreme Court justice and 13 others as judges on Monday. The CT judiciary now includes more women than men.
Posted inPolitics
CT joins states suing Trump over order limiting birthright citizenship
Connecticut was among 18 states to sue President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday over his effort to deny the birthright citizenship.
Posted inPolitics
Trump’s first day draws denunciation and litigation threat from CT
CT Attorney General William Tong vowed to sue over any challenge to birthright citizenship after President Donald Trump promised to end it.
Posted inGovernment
In CT, some friction as MLK Day coincides with Trump inauguration
During an MLK Day celebration in West Hartford, a high school student dropped ‘the line of the morning’ about Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Posted inJustice
CT’s William Tong, other blue-state AGs brace for Trump 2.0
On Inauguration Day, Tong and his staff will be looking for executive orders that conflict with Connecticut laws or violate the Constitution.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
A coming debate over the supply, demand and politics of CT electric rates
Democrats’ ‘Ratepayers First Act,’ proposed Thursday, may be less a solution than a process by which they hope to find one.
Posted inMoney
Lamont assures CBIA that CT’s spending cap is ‘sacrosanct’
Gov. Ned Lamont told business leaders he won’t touch the spending cap, but left room for debate on other fiscal guardrails.
Posted inPolitics
CT opens AI Academy as Lamont, lawmakers differ on need to regulate
Gov. Ned Lamont and Sen. James Maroney welcomed the Online AI Academy, despite a clash over CT efforts to regulate generative AI.