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3 Nov 2010, 7:48 am by Nate Persily
Speaking of Texas, it is interesting to note that the Latino-majority district (Texas 23) that was redrawn following the Supreme Court's decision in LULAC v Perry has now switched back into Republican hands. [read post]
27 May 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal After Texas Shooting, Republicans Face Online Anger Over NRA Money MSN – Timothy Bella (Washington Post) | Published: 5/25/2022 While some Republicans in Congress offered their thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, critics have been quick to point out the millions of dollars that GOP lawmakers have taken from the National Rifle Association (NRA) in contributions over the years. [read post]
17 Jan 2020, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In 1871, Lucy married Albert Parsons, a white Texan and former Confederate soldier who had become a radical Republican after the Civil War. [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 8:09 am by Ruby Powers
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is facing potential rifts with members of his own party in tough re-election contests as he barrels toward a fall fight with Republicans over his ability to change immigration policies. [read post]
5 Mar 2008, 11:17 am
The incumbent for Place 2 is Republican Dixon Holman, who has been forced to retire by Texas’s retirement age for judges. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 10:09 pm
Simon Rosenberg, a Democratic strategist, tells Lizza, “The Bush strategy—enlightened on race, smart on immigration, developed in Texas and Florida with Jeb Bush—has been replaced by the Tancredo-Romney strategy, which is demonizing and scapegoating immigrants, and that is a catastrophic event for the Republican Party. [read post]
5 Jul 2016, 3:03 pm by Mark Graber
  The elite wings of both the Democratic and Republican Parties controlled the Justice Department and both were liberal on most civil rights issues. [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 12:02 pm by Andrew Kent
The nationwide injunction was issued by a single district court judge in Texas, at the behest of Texas and other states, and approved 2-1 by a divided panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 7:59 pm by Mark Bennett
But the Harris County Republican Party is corrupt—at least as corrupt as the Harris County Democratic Party. [read post]
26 Mar 2016, 2:18 pm by Sandy Levinson
  Needless to say, I offer another critique of Bernie Sanders as a very weak "political revolutionary" inasmuch as, unlike Texas  Gov. [read post]
19 Oct 2008, 9:11 pm
Fellow Republican Ed Hubbard now faces Democrat Jim Sharp in an open-seat contest.Such are the pitfalls of partisan election of judges. [read post]
29 Jul 2016, 10:00 am
But most of these efforts depended on votes from both parties, and many of them were signed into law by Republican governors. [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 6:21 am by Gritsforbreakfast
When one closely examines the politics of bipartisan justice reforms, support on the Republican side comes from four discrete sources: 1) libertarians (particularly from the Ron-Paul wing of the party), 2) Second Amendment advocates (many of whom enthusiastically support the rest of the Bill of Rights), 3) office-holders worried about budgets (read: fiscal conservatives), and 4) religious conservatives, or at least a faction of them.This article from Christianity… [read post]
29 May 2013, 10:39 am by Gritsforbreakfast
There were more bills backed up in Calendars already than could possibly be heard in the homestretch in May.Much of this was about the establishment Rs and the Dems aiming to control the Tea Party contingent, which appears ready to embrace more aggressive criminal-justice reforms than their more moderate Republican predecessors. [read post]
23 Feb 2010, 11:13 am by Don Cruse
The Texas Supreme Court has oversight over the practice of law in Texas. [read post]
21 Apr 2013, 9:52 pm by Sandy Levinson
  A large part of the problem, of course, is the mad-dog nature of the modern Republican Party and its de-facto leader, Texas's new Senator Ted Cruz. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 12:16 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Buchanan Earlier this month, I again found myself describing various extremes to which the wholly autocratic Republican Party might yet resort. [read post]