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17 Aug 2014, 2:46 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Will the 84th Legislature, with Rick Perry out of the picture, choose to spend that money to keep DPS and the National Guard at the border instead of on education, healthcare or roads? [read post]
17 Aug 2014, 1:08 pm by Stephen Griffin
  Like a number of constitutional law scholars, I'm very troubled by the indictment of Rick Perry. [read post]
17 Aug 2014, 7:22 am by Walter Olson
Rick Perry indicted is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
16 Aug 2014, 7:20 pm
 Rick Perry (R) makes a statement regarding his grand jury indictment on charges of abuse of power at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Saturday. [read post]
16 Aug 2014, 3:15 pm by Bill
Nobody was really taking <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/08/16/down_goes_perry_the_gops_deep_bench_just_completely_fell_apart/"> Rick Perry </a> seriously, were they? [read post]
16 Aug 2014, 1:56 pm
"... until Friday night a Texas grand jury announced an indictment of governor Rick Perry. [read post]
16 Aug 2014, 1:48 pm by Jeralyn
Texas Governor Rick Perry has been indicted in Texas on charges of abuse of power. [read post]
16 Aug 2014, 1:01 pm
A nice presentation of the Rick Perry story at Drudge:Here's the video everyone's watching:This will raise Perry's stature, right? [read post]
16 Aug 2014, 12:20 pm
UC Irvine’s Rick Hasen writes at Electionlawblog: Texas Governor Rick Perry has been indicted for coercion and abuse of power in a potentially politically motivated prosecution for actions Perry possibly  took out of political motivation to shut down possible politically motivated prosecutions. [read post]
16 Aug 2014, 8:09 am by Bill Otis
Rick Perry, essentially for having the audacity to ask a convicted drunk-driving prosecutor to step aside and, when she did not, vetoing legislation that would have funded a part of her office.I don't know whether the First Amendment or separation-of-powers challenge to the indictment will tank it first, but I'll bet good money that this breathtakingly vindictive and concocted prosecution will never see a single juror impaneled.I have been all over libertarians recently… [read post]
16 Aug 2014, 7:15 am by Immigration Prof
CNN reports that Texas Governor Rick Perry, who recently sent the National Guard to the U.S/Mexico border, has been indicted for allegedly abusing his power by trying to pressure a district attorney to resign. [read post]
16 Aug 2014, 12:01 am
Rick Perry has been indicted for violating Texas Penal Code § 36.03, which provides: A person commits an offense if by means of coercion he … influences or attempts to influence a public servant in a specific exercise of his official power or a specific performance of his official duty or influences or attempts to influence a public servant to violate the public servant’s known legal duty …. [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 8:23 pm
"For exercising his constitutional prerogative by threatening to veto, and then vetoing, an appropriation to support the public corruption unit in Travis County’s district attorney’s office.... [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 7:45 pm by Bill Otis
Rick Perry, one of the most obviously not-ready-for-prime-time Presidential candidates I've ever seen. [read post]
13 Aug 2014, 5:00 am by Doug Cornelius
Contributions were limited to Rick Perry, but none of the other candidates. [read post]
10 Aug 2014, 9:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry's new general counsel, Mary Ann Wiley, said that before the next legislative session the governor's office plans to issue grants to assist processing cases involving potentially large-scale forensic errors, like the Forensic Science Commission's ongoing hair and fiber analysis or the arson review undertaken by the state fire marshal.That's welcome news; those reviews have been rather ad hoc and funding will not only deploy more resources but help… [read post]
6 Aug 2014, 10:43 am by Jeff Foust
Rick Perry confirmed what had neen widely speculated for weeks, if not months: SpaceX would establish a commercial launch site on the Gulf of Mexico near Brownsville, Texas. [read post]