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24 Jul 2016, 5:19 pm
Speakers generally eschewed rhetoric, speaking simply about, for instance, measures taken to reduce the prison population in Texas. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 5:54 am
Perry signed similar anti-shackling legislation in Texas being pushed by the Texas Jail Project and the ACLU.I tell folks all the time - though almost nobody seems to believe it - that criminal-justice issues (with the exception of the death penalty) simply don't cut along traditional liberal-conservative lines in the fashion of the usual Culture War debates, and that Texas has passed more criminal-justice reform legislation since the GOP took over the Lege… [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 3:27 pm
” Marc Levin, of the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation, likes to say “there are 11 felonies in Texas just related to oysters. [read post]
2 Aug 2021, 8:32 am
Abbott and really the entire Republican message machine blaming these shortages on lazy workers and too-generous unemployment checks, but immigration policy is almost certainly the more direct cause. [read post]
16 Sep 2014, 6:03 pm
”Parker’s position is interesting, coming from the chairman of the House Corrections Committee who’s regarded as pretty conservative. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 1:55 pm
The Texas Public Policy Foundation, key Right on Crime signatories, and a handful of conservative legislators and donors have worked tirelessly in right-wing circles to make it politically safe for Republicans to back small-government justice reforms. [read post]
19 Jun 2013, 9:01 pm
To hear some Republicans and conservative commentators describe it, we need to frantically dig up the facts of what happened, in order to answer unanswered questions. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 10:29 am
Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, that was one of several proposals designed to respond to conservatives who decry President Bush's immigration bill as a form of amnesty. [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 9:23 am
Dallas County has officially flipped and the 2010 countywide races will be a real transition point, one imagines, for that long-time Republican bastion.Overall, though, it was a Republican night in most Texas judicial contests, despite President-elect Obama's national whipping of Texas' much-preferred presidential choice. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 9:23 am
Even conservative theorists agree. [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 7:45 am
And perhaps most consequentially, he voted with the Republicans in Bush v. [read post]
#txlege bill eliminating Class-C arrests for traffic offenses moving forward with bipartisan support
17 Apr 2021, 3:59 pm
And many "small government" conservatives would be on board with the idea, just as HB 830 has both Republican and Democratic authors.Finally, readers may recall that eliminating Class C arrests was one of the areas of agreement between the Democratic and Republican Party platforms in Texas on criminal-justice reform, a recollection that gives me the opportunity to bring back this short video with one of my favorite jingles: [read post]
5 May 2016, 9:05 pm
[Ricochet] Tags: CFPB, Donald Trump, Federal Trade Commission, Hillary Clinton, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, politics, schools, Texas, Wal-Mart, wayward Republicans, WO writings Politics roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 8:54 am
University of Texas (affirmative action), Shelby County v. [read post]
4 Apr 2024, 3:02 pm
Republican state attorneys general and conservative activists have been exploiting those rules to challenge federal government policies on abortion, immigration, gun control, transgender rights, and more in front of sympathetic, Republican-appointed judges, primarily in Amarillo and Wichita Falls, Texas. [read post]
8 Jun 2021, 7:56 am
These writers are focused mainly on how politicians in Texas are trying to tell the story of the Alamo, and how efforts to incorporate a full and rich telling have been met with Republican in-fighting between the newest rising politician with the last name Bush, George P., and the state’s super-conservative Dan Patrick. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 3:41 pm
It highlights the extreme nature of what Texas is requesting and is directly aimed at the Court's conservative justices. [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 10:30 am
Finally, it’s worth noting that, contrary to Wolfers’ assumptions (and possibly those of the Texas Board), the man who wrote an essay entitled “Why I am not a Conservative” was, ahem, not a conservative. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 11:28 am
The Texas Tribune estimated arrests for marijuana position dropped by more than half. [read post]
13 Mar 2024, 12:57 pm
Canada does not -- for now -- face anything resembling the politically explosive situation on its southern border as we see in the US, so the Albertan right is not motivated to follow Texas's Republican governor in interfering with another clearly national policy area (immigration). [read post]
