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17 Jun 2021, 6:00 pm by Howard Bashman
High Court Quashes Challenge to Health Care Law; Backing the law still cheekily called Obamacare for the third time, the Supreme Court saw its conservative justices sharply divided on whether Texas and other state challengers have standing. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 3:16 pm by Ilya Somin
Texas, a challenge to the Affordable Care Act brought by a coalition of Republican-controlled state governments. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 8:51 am by Amy Howe
Texas and a group of other states with Republican leaders, as well as two men who did not want to buy health insurance, went to federal court, arguing that the mandate was now unconstitutional because it could no longer be justified as a tax. [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]
8 Jun 2021, 7:56 am by Derek Fincham
These writers are focused mainly on how politicians in Texas are trying to tell the story of the Alamo, and how efforts to incorporate a full and rich telling have been met with Republican in-fighting between the newest rising politician with the last name Bush, George P., and the state’s super-conservative Dan Patrick. [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
It is a conservative estimate of how much he obtained through the embezzlement, prosecutors said. [read post]
28 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
While they have been a tool of both parties in the past, Democrats have been particularly successful in recent years at using ballot initiatives to advance their agenda in conservative states where they have few other avenues. [read post]
26 May 2021, 1:16 pm by Mark Movsesian
" No legislation was specified, but the letter obviously related to controversies in Georgia, Texas, and other states that have adopted or are considering Republican-sponsored bills that critics, mostly Democrats, say discriminate against minority voters. [read post]
24 May 2021, 12:01 pm by Bob Bauer
Similar measures to impose penalties or deny funding to officials for various infractions and failures are pending in Missouri, Texas and Wisconsin. [read post]
20 May 2021, 11:48 am by Josh Blackman
I told USA Today: "I was very surprised how easy the senators went," said Josh Blackman, a law professor at South Texas College of Law Houston and a conservative legal blogger. [read post]
7 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Republicans are opposed to the bill, meaning it will be unable to clear a Senate filibuster. [read post]
4 May 2021, 7:15 am by Ilya Somin
Many conservative Republicans readily grasp this effect in the case of the former, but tend to ignore it when comes to the latter. [read post]
17 Apr 2021, 3:59 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
And many "small government" conservatives would be on board with the idea, just as HB 830 has both Republican and Democratic authors.Finally, readers may recall that eliminating Class C arrests was one of the areas of agreement between the Democratic and Republican Party platforms in Texas on criminal-justice reform, a recollection that gives me the opportunity to bring back this short video with one of my favorite jingles:  [read post]
16 Apr 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Van Loan was chair of Mulroney’s unsuccessful campaign for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party. [read post]
9 Apr 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
His statement included a threat of unspecified “serious consequences” if companies continued to stand opposite Republicans on a variety of issues. [read post]
2 Apr 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The amendment, which would have required both groups to register, was defeated after Cameron, who was still prime minister, ordered Conservative peers to vote against the changes in January 2014, Labour said. [read post]
26 Mar 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
That day, more than 145 Republican lawmakers, encouraged by then-President Trump, voted to dispute the results of the Electoral College certifying Joe Biden as the next president. [read post]
23 Mar 2021, 9:14 am by Gritsforbreakfast
For years, Republicans in Texas have complained about high taxes, which at the local government level are largely driven by public-safety budgets. [read post]
21 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
The first major case pitted RFRA against a small Texas city’s historic preservation district, Boerne v. [read post]
17 Mar 2021, 12:14 pm by Adam C. Ragan
Powell rode an anti-Trump wave to victory in the slightly Republican-leaning Texas Senate District 10, later joining the Education and Higher Education Committees. [read post]