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23 Jun 2011, 8:23 am
Forest complained: “If you want to know why we can’t pass legislation in Texas it’s because we have 37, no 36, Hispanics in the Legislature. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 9:43 am
" Since 2003, the Texas Legislature has passed a number of bills aimed at reducing the number of individuals incarcerated for nonviolent offenses, including drug offenses. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 9:29 am
Before clearing the state Senate last week, Rebecca Forest, who heads Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas, a right-wing immigration- reform group, told a crowd supporting the bill, “We have 37, no 36 Hispanics in the Legislature. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 7:46 am
And: Even Texas has pulled back on its "electric bench" after realizing that prosecuting capital cases costs three times more than sentencing someone to life without parole. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 7:30 am
She noted that the legislature had passed a race-neutral state law that gives graduating students in the top 10 percent of a Texas high school class the right to automatically enroll at UT, according to the Statesman. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 2:32 pm
"MORE: From the Texas Tribune.RELATED: "A Tainted Texplanation on TSA 'groping' bill. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 11:46 am
Call your state senators and representatives and urge them to protect TWIA policyholders’ rights. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 10:46 am
You know she was opposed to the texting while driving ban that became law in llinois.Finally, a governor pushes back on the limits of government and he used his veto power.From the Office of Governor Rick Perry:TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:Pursuant to Article IV, Section 14, of the Texas Constitution, I, Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, do hereby disapprove of and veto House Bill No. 242 as passed by the Eighty-Second Texas Legislature, Regular… [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 10:38 am
Howard (to use the teminology of our Texas-licensed brethren and sistren - thanks, Rebecca) on the court's site. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 11:23 am
However, on June 17, 2011, after passing in the legislature, Governor Rick Perry vetoed Texas House Bill 242. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 6:46 am
If Senate Bill 9 passes both chambers of the Texas Legislature — which could happen as early as this week — communities that prohibit such immigration screenings would lose state grant money. [read post]
18 Jun 2011, 8:27 pm
The Washington State legislature declared:The legislature recognizes that on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War had ended and the slaves were now free; that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863; that the end of slavery brought on new challenges and realities in establishing a previously nonexistent status for African-Americans in the United… [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 2:16 pm
Here's an excerpt from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' majority (5-3) opinion in Phillips v. [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 1:46 pm
He notes that the initiative has been deemed by the MSM as "the feel-good story of the recent Texas legislative session," but warns that state leaders would "do well to avoid the mistakes of a previous generation of juvenile justice reformers. [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 1:31 pm
Texas has increased the use of treatment and rehabilitation and now has its lowest crime rate since 1973. [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 12:13 pm
Texas Trying to Retake Title of “Most Regressive State” from Arizona [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 11:49 am
The style of the case is, Christus Health Gulf Coast, Christus Health Southeast Texas, Gulf Coast Division, Inc., Memorial Hermann Hospital System and Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas v. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 1:08 pm
Surf Safety According to research from the Texas Sea Grant College Program (funded by NOAA, The Texas legislature, and Texas A&M), drowning is the second leading accidental killer of Americans between the ages of 1 and 44, and most drowning victims are between 15 and 19 years old. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 12:48 pm
HB 215, which was passed by the 82nd Regular Session of the Texas Legislature, is on the governor's desk awaiting final action. [read post]
Skewed priorities: Criminal courts raise plenty of revenue but Lege diverts it from indigent defense
15 Jun 2011, 11:48 am
Checking in at Carl Reynolds blog, CourtTex, we discover that, perhaps unsurprisingly, indigent defense funding and other legal services for the poor took a big hit in the 82nd Texas Legislature. [read post]
