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1 Jul 2009, 5:13 am
Hey, don't take my word for it, here's a link to the bill analysis, and another link to the bill look up page on the Texas Legislature Online in case you want to look at all the different versions of the bill that passed and the corresponding bill analyses. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 4:04 am
MEMO: A Report on Obama Administration Violations of Law FROM: Attorneys General Tom Horne, Arizona; Pam Bondi, Florida; Sam Olens, Georgia; Bill Schuette, Michigan; Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma; Marty Jackley, South Dakota; Alan Wilson, South Carolina; Greg Abbott, Texas; Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia DATE: March… [read post]
5 Jul 2014, 10:21 am
David Simpson, a small-l libertarian Republican Texas state rep from Longview, authored an Independence Day column in his local paper opining that the US Supreme Court's recent ruling in Riley v. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 7:47 am
In Austin, city legal staff has told City Manager Spencer Cronk that the state civil service code won't allow him to fire Chief Brian Manley, only demote him to chief of staff. [read post]
16 Apr 2015, 4:19 am
The Texas Legislature seems intent on keeping Houston attorney Mark Bennett busy beating down unconstitutional statutes in an ongoing game of whack-a-mole. [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 6:06 pm
And that seemed like the avenue which may prevail if the state wins this rehearing, even though it wasn't even part of the discussion last year. [read post]
27 May 2016, 3:17 pm
The legislature itself has acknowledged that “access to information concerning the conduct of the people’s business is a fundamental and necessary right of every person in this state. [read post]
16 Mar 2017, 5:43 am
Greg Abbott raised the stakes when he used his State of the State address earlier this week to proclaim that “hailstorm litigation is the newest form of lawsuit abuse. [read post]
19 Jul 2011, 1:14 pm
"This case demonstrates well why the Legislature needs to pass the bill carried both in 2009 and this last session by State Sen. [read post]
20 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm
”This is why a few European courts have recently refused to extradite American criminals.Last year a Scottish judge took the extraordinary step of refusing to send a man accused of aggravated assault in Texas back to that state. [read post]
27 Oct 2021, 6:21 am
If the stakes were lower, it would be relatively easy to imagine any Justice thinking Case X is ripe for overruling but until we overrule it, state legislatures must abide by it.I can't imagine Justice Thomas or Justice Alito thinking something like that. [read post]
31 Aug 2023, 8:58 am
.): This case concerns a law passed by the State of Texas that restricts access to pornographic websites by requiring digital age verification methods … about the alleged harms caused by pornography…. [read post]
8 Jul 2007, 2:16 am
For those actually serving time in Texas prisons and their loved ones, this arguably was the most important new law passed at the Legislature this year.See also prior Grits coverage of new legislation requiring secure, tamper-proof phones to be installed in Texas prisons by September 2008. [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 2:41 am
They need to step up because they argued at the Legislature they should get they money instead of state hospitals, leaving a gaping problem with lack of competency restoration services squarely in the lap of local jailers and mentally ill defendants. [read post]
15 Apr 2009, 12:28 pm
After three days of searching, there was still no sign of "Sarah Barlow, the motion states. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 8:39 am
This reform, recommended years ago by Texas' Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions, should be at the top of the Texas Legislature's list when it convenes next year. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 8:07 am
Texas has the largest state prison population in the country - larger even than California, though we have less than two-thirds of their population. [read post]
1 Apr 2007, 2:28 pm
It was neither a lie nor an illusion that W worked well with the Democrats who ran the state legislature. [read post]
9 Aug 2011, 12:10 pm
A closely-watched bill in the Texas legislature that defines Amazon’s distribution center in Ft. [read post]
28 Sep 2023, 9:00 am
“Concerns about potential misuse or unintended consequences of AI have prompted efforts to examine and develop standards,” reported the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). [read post]
