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2 Jul 2011, 7:55 pm
Missouri and Texas have also eliminated Medicaid grants for family planning. [read post]
21 Jun 2023, 4:00 am
Ron DeSantis Used Secretive Panel to Flip State Supreme Court” by Beth Reinhard and Josh Dawsey (Washington Post) for MSN The post Wednesday’s LobbyComply News Roundup appeared first on State and Federal Communications. [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 12:13 pm
Texas Trying to Retake Title of “Most Regressive State” from Arizona [read post]
20 Jun 2018, 6:55 am
How will the state respond to the threat of felonious bivalve behavior rising like a tide upon our shores? [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 1:44 pm
It is clear the governor and the Legislature are very serious about protecting the citizens of the state while providing a constitutional treatment program. [read post]
15 Feb 2008, 1:34 am
Here's a draft of the TYC resolution:RESOLUTON CALLING FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE IMPROVEMENTS AND REFORM OF THE TEXAS YOUTH COMMISSIONWHEREAS the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) became embroiled last year in an internationally publicized sex scandal involving multiple facilities that cast a harsh light on problems in the state's juvenile justice system, causing its executive director and most top staff to resign or be fired;WHEREAS the Governor's initial… [read post]
24 Apr 2020, 7:43 am
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil for May contracts was trading at a historically low -$37 per barrel (WTI serves as a reference price for crude oil). [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 2:05 pm
Last October, the state's high court upheld Thompson's death sentence in a 4-3 decision.Nevada Lawmakers To Hear Several Gun Bills: This may be the 'year of the gun' in the Nevada Legislature as at least nine gun-related bills have already been introduced or are being drafted by lawmakers. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 1:35 pm
Interestingly, some of the Texas commentary immediately following Lochner was quite favorable, including in the Dallas Morning News, which wrote “The right of contract is one of the most sacred rights of the freeman, and any interference with such privilege by Legislatures or courts is essentially dangerous and vicious. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 6:06 am
Criminal justice analysts point to Kansas and Texas as recent innovators. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 8:55 am
The opinion noted that the Legislature could create such a remedy, as some other states have done. [read post]
17 Dec 2021, 10:37 am
Everyone else on his side has been responding to the ingenious piece of legal legerdemain by which the Texas legislature is trying to get around Roe, converting its restriction on abortion into a civil action by private parties, with outrage. [read post]
11 Jul 2014, 9:06 am
As Grits wrote last month, I can't imagine the Texas Legislature moving to end pot prohibition in their next session or two, though reducing penalties for user-level possession is a strong possibility. [read post]
10 Apr 2016, 10:53 am
Now, Jennifer Emily at the Dallas News provides some backstory on it.The Texas Observer recently published an interview with exoneree Anthony Graves, who was also featured in the Dallas News last month for his philanthropic efforts supporting innocence work.The Comptroller turned down compensation for Alfred Brown, whose wrongful conviction spurred the Legislature to eliminate the state's pick-a-pal grand jury system.In a similar vein, Jordan Smith has an update on… [read post]
22 Jun 2016, 3:57 am
This news could bump the Pack Unit up on the list of the most likely next TDCJ units the Legislature may consider closing. [read post]
19 Aug 2021, 6:00 am
But Texas' experience doesn't reflect such a trend. [read post]
8 Dec 2013, 11:03 am
Texas courts, prosecutors, defense counsel and crime labs already are struggling with these questions, and it appears the Texas Legislature may need to take up the issue when they re-convene in 2015. [read post]
20 Aug 2011, 4:36 pm
Looking at it from the perspective of the state’s own residents, I think it’s a terrible deal, and if I were a state legislature, I would set strict limits on the percentages of out-of-state and international students that could be admitted, and the larger the pool of highly qualified applicants — California or Texas are pretty easy cases — the less reason to admit non-residents.The problem is a classic public choice problem.… [read post]
8 Jan 2013, 7:58 am
Texas has by far the largest prison population in the nation - even though we release 70,000 inmates per year - State Sen. [read post]
4 May 2009, 10:10 am
The Texas Legislature has investigated only four state judges since the state's Constitution was adopted in 1875; Judge Keller is the fifth. [read post]
