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8 Mar 2023, 7:20 am by Marcia Coyle
Texas Republican officials have been particularly adept at filing challenges to Biden administration policies in districts with single judges appointed by former President Donald Trump. [read post]
12 Jun 2009, 12:27 am
" The other two Texas CCA judges up in 2010 are Michael Keasler and Cheryl Johnson, all Republicans.There is no liberal wing on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 8:20 am by Ilya Somin
University of Texas, David Gans and UCLA law professor Adam Winkler take conservative originalist opponents of affirmative action to task for ignoring originalism in their arguments against the constitutionality of racial preferences for minorities. [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 11:21 am by Hopkins
Newsmax is an ultra-conservative organization claiming to provide news. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 8:42 pm by Ilya Somin
The bill was introduced by Democrat Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Ron Paul, a Texas Republican running for his party’s presidential nomination.Four Democrats are co-sponsors: John Conyers of Michigan, Barbara Lee of California, Jared Polis of Colorado and Steve Cohen of Tennessee.As the Washington Post notes in the article quoted above, the bill has no chance of actually passing. [read post]
23 Dec 2015, 5:13 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Haley Barbour pardoned 203 prisoners at the end of his second term as the Republican governor of Mississippi, an act that briefly became a national non-scandal eagerly covered by the national media sniffing around for gotchas. [read post]
21 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm by John Dean
Like many Americans outside of Texas, I had never seen freshman U.S. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 3:44 pm
But Ted Poe, a Republican congressman from Texas, told CBC News that the case is a matter of sovereignty. [read post]
14 Apr 2016, 11:04 am by Old Fox
He must have believed the curriculum in the Government Schools.Citing "Republican" Gerrymandering, the reporter decries problems with Latino representation in Texas, but just a paragraph earlier, he opines that requiring proof of citizenship to vote is "racist. [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 7:36 am by Rick Hasen
Mike Allen (Playbook): WHAT THE TEA PARTY WIN MEANS TO GOVERNING : The 13-point victory by Ted Cruz, the former Texas solicitor general, over the sitting lieutenant governor, David Dewhurst, is a dramatic manifestation of the repeated pattern in GOP primaries over the past three years: upset victories by more-conservative, non-establishment candidates. [read post]
12 Nov 2011, 10:18 am by Lovechilde
  I've written about Rick Perry because his decisions as Texas governor, especially his cavalier attitude about the death penalty and how it resonates with Republicans, have real world significance. [read post]
14 Jun 2021, 3:08 pm by Ilya Somin
In April, Republican governors in Arizona, West Virginia, and Montana signed similar bills into law, while Arkansas' governor, also a Republican, vetoed a bill. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 1:18 am
It's not quite "Man Bites Dog," but a Republican state district judge in Houston this week called for Governor Perry and the Texas Legislature to reduce drug sentences. [read post]
13 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
One candidate recently even described himself as “a proven conservative. [read post]
9 Nov 2012, 11:27 am by Ruby Powers
Indeed, when President Bush championed comprehensive immigration reforms in 2007, it was shot down by conservative Republicans who opposed the inclusion of a pathway to legalization for those in the country illegally — a notion critics call “amnesty. [read post]
27 Dec 2012, 10:07 am by Sandy Levinson
  Before Edwards was defeated for re-election (thanks to a Democratic gerrymander), he had risen to the leadership cadre of the Republican Party in the House, and in the terms of the 1980's and 1990's, he was certainly thought to be conservative. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 9:30 am by Susan I. Nelson
Aliseda, 54, a freshman lawmaker, said he's probably the most conservative of the handful of Hispanic Republicans in the House. [read post]
27 Jul 2017, 4:00 am by Gritsforbreakfast
And on criminal justice, we're in this moment where we have the president talking about “American Carnage” and the attorney general ramping the drug war back up, and here in Texas we have conservative Republicans taking the opportunity of extremely low crime rates to close prisons. [read post]
15 Aug 2008, 11:25 am
Indeed, the DIVERT Court's success and that of other "problem solving courts" has made them cause celebres among quite a few fiscally conservative Republicans looking to stem growing prison and jail costs, reports Goodwyn:The courts have been so successful that even the tough-on-crime, Republican-dominated Texas Legislature approves. [read post]