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30 Jan 2018, 8:25 am by Laura Kim and Calvin Cohen
Simons, an antitrust attorney, as Chairman; Noah Joshua Phillips, chief counsel for Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas), for the second Republican seat; Christine Wilson, an executive for Delta Air Lines, for the third Republican seat; and Rohit Chopra, a senior fellow at the Consumer Federation of America, for a Democratic seat. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 5:13 am
"...States have repealed straight ticket devices in the past fifty years are Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas (effective 2019), and Wisconsin. [read post]
21 Sep 2009, 9:26 am
Glasheen, a self-described Republican from the "Libertarian wing of the party," hopes new DNA testing on old evidence will free more prisoners. [read post]
8 Oct 2013, 5:35 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Republicans were split more or less equally on the subject of marijuana legalization, with 48 percent supporting the idea and 49 percent opposing. [read post]
24 Jun 2018, 7:36 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"Soon, Grits will follow up with a post detailing points of agreement between D and R platforms and speculating on prospects for bipartisan #cjreform in the 2019 Texas Legislature.RELATED: Check out the special podcast Just Liberty put together to promote criminal-justice reform measures in the Texas Democratic Party platform. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 3:09 am by Bob Kraft
” Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips uses Texas as a cautionary tale against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s plan for federal tort reform. [read post]
15 Oct 2013, 7:58 pm by Sandy Levinson
  He is more truly contemptible even than the junior Senator from Texas, who is, as Jack Balkin has argued, a combination of Lenin, Joe McCarthy, and Huey Long, without the slightest trace of loyalty to the institutional Republican Party. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 7:29 am by Jeralyn
Among the more heartwarming stories: Texas prison inmates served as caretakers to the evacuees and Louisiana inmates became first responders. [read post]
12 Nov 2007, 1:09 pm
Texas and other "culture war" cases benefit the Republican party by providing a target around which to organize activists. [read post]
4 Mar 2008, 4:18 am
The current situation in the Democratic and Republican parties is almost entirely a function of the fact that they operate under two strikingly different election systems. [read post]
10 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
” by Trip Gabriel (New York Times) for Seattle Times Legislative Issues Texas: “Texas Republicans’ Internecine Fights Overshadow Special Session” by Molly Hennessey-Fiske (Washington Post) for MSN Redistricting Illinois: “Illinois Democrats Drew New Maps. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 1:55 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
27 May 2021, 9:36 am by Gritsforbreakfast
This was the year the far-right wing of the party finally got its wish list they'd been denied in the 20 years since Republicans took power in Texas: The entire legislative session was about abortion, guns, jingoism, and "backing the blue. [read post]
11 Jan 2010, 6:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A classic political stalemate pitting Texas' Democratic congressional delegation and Obama's administration against Texas' pair of Republican senators is partly to blame for the slowed process here. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 7:42 am by GSU Law Student
For both parties, Georgia votes on Tuesday, March 1 along with Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 7:42 am by GSU Law Student
For both parties, Georgia votes on Tuesday, March 1 along with Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia. [read post]
29 Aug 2017, 7:31 am by JB
This assumes, however, a vision of government deeply at odds with the ideological assumptions of the Reagan-era Republican Party. [read post]
11 Oct 2021, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
This is the kind of abortion exceptionalism that defines the conservative wing of the Republican Party, even for members who have taken positions in the judiciary for which they have sworn to be neutral arbiters of the law.The law in question is known as SB 8. [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 7:02 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But the underlying opinions of the Republican base almost certainly remain the same.Some Texas business interests, on the other hand, are ready for the wave of nativism that's swept through the Grand Old Party to subside. [read post]