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13 Nov 2018, 6:06 am
Florida’s 29 electoral college votes ranks as third most in the country, behind only California’s 55 and Texas’s 38. [read post]
30 Jul 2013, 3:37 pm
While many of its opponents (including this blog) argued that the right thing to do was provide sufficient manpower to the Florida judicial system to do what it’s meant to do: work the cases and clear the docket, instead the Florida Legislature passed a new law that changes the foreclosure process in this state. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 8:41 am
Under current rules, the public can't really know whether the agency is doing a good job or not, and Grits readers, at least, are under the impression they are not.Since the Sunset process is focused on what the Legislature can do, the self-evaluation report fails to inform us what similar changes the agency thinks need to be made by the Texas Supreme Court rules - the main barrier identified in the SER to improving their operations. [read post]
15 May 2024, 9:05 pm
In the United States, very few state wildlife agencies receive steady, or even one-time, appropriations from their state legislatures. [read post]
10 Dec 2020, 8:30 pm
Conservative Nonprofit Group Challenging Election Results Around the Country Has Tie to Trump Legal Adviser Jenna Ellis MSN – John Swain, Rosalind Helderman, Josh Dawsey, and Tom Hamburger (Washington Post) | Published: 12/7/2020 A conservative legal organization that has filed lawsuits challenging the election results in five states has a tie to President Trump’s legal team, raising questions about the independence of what has appeared to be an endeavor separate from… [read post]
14 Aug 2009, 8:46 am
Texas] has foreclosed such reliance," he asserted. [read post]
30 Apr 2020, 5:54 am
In Texas, for example, an injury not compensable under workers’ compensation law is also not subject to the exclusivity bar. [read post]
31 Jul 2012, 6:03 am
That makes Texas a daylight thief. [read post]
3 Sep 2021, 4:00 am
As Washington Stews, State Legislatures Increasingly Shape American Politics New York Times – Michael Wines | Published: 8/29/2021 With the release of the 2020 census, the drawing of legislative districts that could in large part determine control of Congress for the next decade heads to the nation’s state Legislatures, the heart of Republican political power. [read post]
1 Jul 2022, 4:00 am
So far, four supporters of his election falsehoods have won Republican primaries for secretary of state. [read post]
11 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
The first will, in almost all states (save Maine and Nebraska) award the entirety of the state’s electors to the hegemons’ favorite candidate. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 7:30 am
Already, we see anti-reproductive rights laws, anti-immigrant bills, and anti-Muslim policies being introduced in state legislatures. [read post]
9 Mar 2024, 9:05 pm
We note in our essay that in seven states voters have used referenda to expand Medicaid in the face of inaction by their legislatures and governors to enable all low-income residents to enroll in the program. [read post]
22 Jul 2013, 8:05 am
Neither Scopes nor Epperson was prosecuted by the state; both were test cases designed to ridicule the legislature in open court. [read post]
11 May 2018, 1:01 pm
Harris County, Texas v. [read post]
28 Nov 2014, 3:13 pm
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruling that made the biggest national headlines this week was their decision to kill mentally ill capital murderer Scott Panetti. [read post]
22 Feb 2021, 2:12 pm
If you needed another example why the Texas Legislature should forbid police from arresting people for Class C misdemeanors, here's yet another poster-child case for the history books.Rodney Reese, an 18-year old black man living in Plano, was walking home from his job at the Walmart during the Snowpocalypse when police officers stopped him ostensibly for a "wellness check. [read post]
SCOTUS Repeated Relisting of a Case on the Meaning of Race Neutrality--and a Plug for my new Article
19 Feb 2024, 4:00 am
What about other mechanisms for increasing or maintaining racial diversity, including mechanisms that are undoubtedly facially race-neutral--such as "percentage plans" of the sort long used in Texas and elsewhere (and recently included in a bill passed by the Wisconsin legislature)? [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 3:05 pm
Although rules differ from state to state, in Texas, a stadium owner has only a limited duty to provide adequately screened seats for all those who wish to sit behind a screen. [read post]
19 Jul 2009, 12:49 am
In April 2003, the county also agreed to pay $250,000 to the defendants in exchange for immunity from civil lawsuits.In the end, all of Texas' drug task forces were ultimately consolidated under the Department of Public Safety and later disbanded by Governor Perry when other scandals kept cropping up in town after town across the state.We tried after the Tulia scandals to convince the Texas Legislature to require corroboration of some sort in undercover drug buys like… [read post]
