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8 Feb 2007, 11:12 pm
  (Virginia is the only other state that does it that way.) [read post]
16 Oct 2017, 11:52 am by John Floyd
”   Texas De-Registration Program Has Proven Ineffective   The State of Texas has 90,000-plus sex offenders registered. [read post]
9 Dec 2006, 9:08 pm
The system houses 173,000 inmates — second-place Texas has 152,500 — and has an $8 billion budget. [read post]
5 Mar 2016, 10:18 am by John Floyd
”   Lisa McMinn, the State Prosecuting Attorney who represented the State against Perry, agreed. [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 9:12 am by Cleve Clinton
If acting under state eminent domain authority, constitutional amendments, effective January 2010, require a two-thirds supermajority of both houses of the Texas Legislature before eminent domain power can be delegated. [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 7:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Colorado's program has a $50,000 a year budget - cut from $100,000 this year by state lawmakers - which can be used to buy witnesses bus tickets or help them move to a new apartment.But in the four years before [two local witnesses] were killed, the state spent an average of $29,895 a year protecting witnesses statewide, less than the amount Denver spends to plant flowers.Most states including Texas and apparently Pennsylvania don't have comprehensive… [read post]
1 Sep 2012, 9:18 am by Gritsforbreakfast
How would the Texas Juvenile Justice Department comply with the 10% budget reduction next biennium requested by the Governor? [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 6:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Livingston will defer judgment to his Board of Criminal Justice, and to the collective will of the legislature, the Lt. [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 1:11 am
Supreme Court for Gay Marriage Fiat New Jersey Law Journal Citing the New Jersey Legislature's failure in the last session to enact a same-sex marriage law, a coalition of gay rights groups is asking the state Supreme Court to issue its own mandate. [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 2:58 am by Amy Howe
” At the National Conference of State Legislatures, Lisa Soronen discusses the brief that the State and Local Legal Center filed in a pair of energy cases before the Court, arguing that “Maryland directing its local utilities to enter into a long-term contract providing stable revenue to the successful power plant bidder isn’t field- or conflict-pre-empted. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 9:36 am by Steve Hall
The state legislature adopted the unified process in 1997 in an effort to speed up death-penalty appeals. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 3:58 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
If you're really and truly "fed up" with the federal judiciary from a state's rights standpoint, this should be a cause you can get behind: It's the ultimate snub, asserting Texas' rights as a state over decades-old federal judicial fiat. [read post]
18 Jan 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Legislature’s Redacted Legal Bills Flout Court Ruling, Leave Taxpayers Guessing” by Angela Couloumbis (Spotlight PA) and Sam Janesch (The Caucus) for Spotlight PA The post Tuesday’s LobbyComply News Roundup appeared first on State and Federal Communications. [read post]
5 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
” by Patrick Marley (Washington Post) for MSN Florida: “Florida Ethics Board Plans Hearing in Miami Mayor’s Gift Case, Tosses Second Complaint” by Sarah Blaskey (Miami Herald) for Yahoo News Iowa: “Founder of Group That Opposes Book Bans Files Ethics Complaint Against Iowa Lawmaker” by Chris Higgins (Des Moines Register) for Yahoo News Texas: “Texas AG’s Pursuit of Transgender Medical Records Stirs Privacy… [read post]
10 May 2017, 10:20 am by John Floyd
  As the marriage between the prosecutor/snitch unraveled, the Innocence Project filed an ethics complaint in July 2014 against Jackson with the State Bar of Texas. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 12:50 pm by Sam Favate
The law  – which the state’s Republican-controlled legislature passed in July over Democratic Gov. [read post]