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12 May 2023, 5:05 pm
This Commentary builds the historical record critical to debates over the criminalization of abortion in state courts and legislatures. [read post]
12 May 2023, 9:50 am by Rebecca Johnson
The forms are the result of a change in state law passed by the 84th Texas Legislature and signed by the governor. [read post]
12 May 2023, 8:24 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  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]
12 May 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Republican-led Legislatures have continued to pass restrictions on access to the ballot. [read post]
11 May 2023, 5:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
In Texas, the criminal penalty is up to life in prison for a doctor who violates the state’s abortion ban. [read post]
10 May 2023, 6:30 am by Josh Blackman
Murr announced on Facebook: Though Representative Slaton has submitted his resignation from office, under Texas law he is considered to be an officer of this state until a successor is elected and takes the oath of office to represent Texas House District 2. [read post]
10 May 2023, 4:33 am by Tabatha Abu El-Haj
Times: Texas’s Republican-dominated state Legislature is targeting Harris County — the newest urban area to show signs of becoming a Democratic Party stronghold in the state — for voting restrictions. [read post]
10 May 2023, 4:00 am by Administrator
Laws made by Parliament, legislatures, and city councils change all the time. [read post]
9 May 2023, 9:05 am by Cleve Clinton
If the culture has, in fact, changed Texas courts will wait for the Texas legislature to change Texas law on this point. [read post]
9 May 2023, 2:40 am by Seán Binder
  OTHER DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENTS A bipartisan committee of the Texas State Legislature yesterday voted to advance a bill raising the minimum age to purchase AR-15-style rifles from 18 to 21. [read post]
8 May 2023, 5:16 am by Jane Bambauer
Texas S.B. 5 begins its preamble by stating, “The legislature finds that social media platforms are akin to common carriers” and prohibits platforms from “censoring” content based on the viewpoint of the user. [read post]
5 May 2023, 1:48 pm by Ilya Somin
Our earliest cases in particular embodied a strong theme of federalism, emphasizing the "great respect" that we owe to state legislatures and state courts in discerning local public needs. [read post]
4 May 2023, 8:47 am
He suggests that this approach may still lead to unusual or absurd results, focusing on Article IV, section 4, which states:The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.Heaney argues that a present public meaning approach could result in a… [read post]
3 May 2023, 4:05 pm by Texas Legal News
Resolving Claims of Medical Negligence in Texas A pretrial screening panel or arbitrator is not required in Texas, but the state legislature has given counties permission to use them if they so choose. [read post]
2 May 2023, 8:00 am by Rania Combs
However, amendments the Texas Legislature made to the spendthrift statute in 2013 may have created a back door to creating a self-settled asset protection trust. [read post]
2 May 2023, 3:23 am by Seán Binder
The FBI and several Texas law enforcement agencies continue to search for the fugitive. [read post]
1 May 2023, 11:46 am by Jackie Gardina, J.D.
On the state level, gerrymandering has led to significant partisan bias in maps and allowed one political party to capture supermajorities in the state legislature. [read post]