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2 Nov 2021, 1:41 pm
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and 24 other senators contend that the drafters of the Second Amendment weighed the competing interests associated with owning and carrying firearms and came down on the side of robust gun right. [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 7:00 am
The Texas Legislature passed Texas’s animal trust statute in 2005, and it became effective on January 1, 2006. [read post]
12 May 2022, 11:14 am
(3) The states that have Democratic governors but in which both houses of the legislature are Republican-led will see their legislatures do what Trump's people tried and failed to get them to do in 2020, that is, announce that because the United States Constitution uses the word "legislatures" in relevant provisions, it is the legislatures alone (unhindered by governors, state courts, or state constitutions)… [read post]
11 Dec 2006, 4:51 am
The system houses 173,000 inmates — second-place Texas has 152,500 — and has an $8 billion budget. [read post]
5 Jan 2016, 7:31 am
But everything turns on how Texas pursues that goal. [read post]
23 May 2009, 1:30 am
Thirty six states have formally authorized needle exhange operations, and Texas is the only state in the union where they cannot legally operate in some form or fashion.I'd be quite disappointed if all this positive legislation falls victim to what amounts to a partisan feud.Voter ID was always going to be dicier in the House than the Senate because of the more or less even partisan split. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 3:53 am
Indeed, Harris County accounts for such a large proportion of less-than-a-gram cases in Texas, this decision could even help out the state in the medium-term with managing state-jail population growth. [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 6:00 am
While change in U.S. privacy law at the federal level continues to remain a possibility, state legislatures continue to be at the forefront of new privacy regulations. [read post]
3 Sep 2010, 4:44 am
State, 7th District Court of Appeals (Amarillo) Appellant, an indigent defendant (who, incidentally, also qualified as an indigent appellant), was ordered by the trial court to pay court-appointed attorney's fees and non-resident witness travel fees as "court costs" under Articles 26.05 and 102.002 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, respectively. [read post]
7 Jan 2011, 9:27 am
Not only have Florida lawmakers failed on this front, they are one of the few state legislatures in the nation that have passed a law preventing local cities from enacting their own ordinances to protect the public. [read post]
13 May 2011, 10:09 am
Perry will allow it to become law this go-round so the Legislature and the public can see that the sky won't fall if low-risk offenders are allowed to get off the list. [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 8:04 am
As readers may remember the TCAP was created by the last legislature. [read post]
21 Oct 2007, 12:02 am
Acting TYC executive commissioner Dimitria Pope had to cancel a scheduled speaking engagement in Lubbock at the statewide conference of the Juvenile Justice Association of Texas in order to attend the hearing. [read post]
28 Jan 2020, 2:55 am
Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner has the state legislature redefining the scope of his authority so as to put the state attorney general in charge of prosecuting cases he refuses to handle. [read post]
6 Nov 2019, 1:32 pm
For many taxpayers in states like Texas, not having an income tax is an important selling point and a distinction worth the fight. [read post]
24 Apr 2019, 12:36 pm
Cuomo and the legislature agreed the law needed tweaking and did so last month. [read post]
9 Jun 2007, 3:28 pm
This is particularly true when the "evidence" supposedly shows the state legislature's motives. [read post]
12 May 2023, 8:24 am
We should remember, however, that in fact the deep rot has been here all along, in some states even worse than in Florida -- hello, Texas! [read post]
27 Jun 2014, 9:21 am
This one reform would be the equivalent of increasing patrol staffing by ten percent.Begin to use discretion given police by the Legislature in 2007 to write citations instead of making arrests for driving with a suspended license and possession of marijuana.Follow Texas' other large cities by issuing paraphernalia citations for crack pipes instead of sending them to the crime lab to scrape traces off for state-jail felony possession prosecution. [read post]
1 Dec 2015, 9:39 pm
That was the state legislature’s attempt to reach a diversity goal by a strictly race-neutral formula, after an earlier policy had been struck down by a federal appeals court in 1996. [read post]
