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2 Jun 2023, 3:27 pm
Paxton was then elected to the Texas State Senate in November 2012, riding a wave of support from the state’s powerful evangelical Christian community. [read post]
28 Jan 2019, 5:38 am
Budget hawks at the Texas Legislature should be taking a close look at the state prison system this year. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 9:21 am
How much criminal-justice reform the Texas Legislature can muster this year will largely be decided over the next few days. [read post]
15 Jul 2014, 4:18 am
Third, the Texas Legislature meets in a little less than six months and has the ability to change the Business Organizations Code to overrule the Court’s decision by statute. [read post]
31 Aug 2015, 10:40 am
Tuesday September 1 MICHAEL WILLIAMS, COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY; GLENN HEGAR, TEXAS COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY; THE TEXAS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION; AND THE TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY v. [read post]
29 Sep 2007, 10:52 am
Whitmire noted that Perry, until overturned by the Legislature, attempted to use his executive order power to require teenage girls to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease. [read post]
1 Aug 2022, 10:29 am
Legislative Special Sessions Two states have recently convened special sessions of their legislatures to implement new abortion laws as a result of the Dobbs decision. [read post]
26 Dec 2022, 4:03 pm
Meanwhile, two laws that were passed last year by state legislatures in Texas and in Florida are being argued about in federal courts, with mixed results. [read post]
16 Jul 2019, 6:59 pm
The First Amendment Encyclopedia summarizes Justice Stevens' church-state jurisprudence:Stevens was a consistent defender of church-state separation in freedom of religion cases. [read post]
17 Mar 2015, 5:02 am
Texas is generally a safe state, but it's a big one too. [read post]
15 Oct 2012, 11:04 am
Last year, Texas had a golden opportunity to wipe out texting and driving when a state law outlawing the dangerous habit got as far as the Governor's desk before being killed off. [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 9:24 am
The California Legislature passed the California Trust Act of 2013 and took the decision-making on ICE requests out of that state’s police departments altogether. [read post]
17 May 2010, 4:11 am
Evading arrest is a crime under Section 38.04 of the Texas Penal Code and when someone uses a vehicle to evade arrest, it is a state jail felony. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 9:01 am
Montford, former Lubbock County DA, former Texas State Senator, and the first Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System; Ted Olson, former Solicitor General of the United States; Ken Starr, former judge on the U.S. [read post]
25 Apr 2007, 11:19 pm
However, thanks to a 1989 statute won by police unions at the Legislature, those same records are closed at 73 Texas cities that have adopted the state civil service code (Chapter 143.o89(g) of the Local Government Code).This has always been a personal beef of mine - most of these 73 cities opted into the civil service code via plebiscites in the '40s and '50s. [read post]
2 Sep 2021, 4:58 am
It's Texas. [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 12:05 pm
In order from largest to smallest, here are several criminal-justice items the state can in theory afford to fund in light of this blithesome budget news:Pay for TDCJ prisoner healthcare, guard raises, programming (w/o AC): $546.6 millionThe Legislature has already been told that, unless the state changes policies to incarcerate fewer people, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will need $175 million more in the next biennium just to pay for healthcare for… [read post]
19 Aug 2019, 7:33 am
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 261 mass shootings (defined as incidents in which four or more people are shot or killed) in the United States so far in 2019. [read post]
18 Feb 2022, 1:53 pm
" Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country have taken interest in how topics of race and social justice are taught and discussed in schools. [read post]
15 Dec 2021, 11:50 am
(It also bans “censorship” on the basis of a user’s geographic location in Texas.) [read post]
