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10 Oct 2018, 7:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Such examples of overreach have led to a bipartisan backlash: At their state conventions in June, both the Republican Party of Texas and the Texas Democratic Party included provisions in their platforms calling for an end to jailing drivers for non-payment of traffic tickets and other Class C misdemeanor debt, switching to commercial collections methods, instead. [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 2:18 pm
If problems with voting machines and tricks by one party to keep people of another party from voting happen in every election, at what point do we stop calling them "irregularities? [read post]
16 Nov 2006, 2:38 pm
  One of the controversial nominees is for the Fifth Circuit, which hears Texas cases. [read post]
19 Jul 2008, 9:35 am
Jan. 25, 2008)(per curiam) (election mandamus against Democratic Party [read post]
9 May 2015, 6:42 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Senator  Cornyn of Texas is a co-sponsor of the PATENT Act, which is an alternative to Goodlatte's Innovation Act, backed by Congr. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 7:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A slightly longer version that story was published at the Texas Tribune. [read post]
21 Sep 2018, 10:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
That suggestion was given a boost in June, when both the Republican and Democratic parties included such a prohibition in their platforms. [read post]
16 Mar 2017, 8:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Wikipedia defines it as the "process whereby the major political parties compete with each other to be 'tough on crime'. [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Campaign Finance National: “How ActBlue Has Transformed Democratic Politics” by Elena Schneider for Politico National: “Florida Businessman Pleads Guilty in Fraud Case Involving Giuliani Associates” by Josh Gerstein for Politico National: “A Government Watchdog Says White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Spent Campaign Funds on Personal Expenditures” by Yelena Dzhanova for Business Insider Kansas: “Kansas State Parties Didn’t… [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 7:42 am by Jeralyn
Please,President Obama, if you want a second term, switch parties and run as the Republican you've become, and let us Democrats run a true Democrat against you. [read post]
25 Aug 2022, 4:57 am by Joanna L. Grossman
Over a series of sessions, after the Republican party took control of a state that had been in Democratic hands for a century, the legislature adopted laws that did not ban abortion but made it more onerous and costly. [read post]
14 Nov 2017, 10:23 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention:Press coverage dismissive of police reform effortsStatesman coverage of the Austin police union contract portrayed opposition by "several Austin criminal justice activists," by which they mean 10 or so community organizations and hundreds of endorsing signators, not to mention a unanimous vote to reject the contract by Travis County Democratic Party precinct chairs. [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 12:16 pm by Wolfgang Demino
Ronald Eugene Reynolds, and Reynolds v State of Texas, on appeal in iterations, for a total of five convictions, now affirmed.Richard Reister solicited clients in violation of the Texas barratry statute and got the law declared unconstitutional so he could keep doing it; Ronald Reynolds is heading for jail for one year unless the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reverses.This blawg normally focuses on debt collection litigation, but I will digress and address an issue… [read post]
10 Dec 2021, 9:20 am by Michael C. Dorf
DorfToday SCOTUS decided the Texas SB8 case, rendering what looks superficially like a split decision. [read post]
24 Apr 2008, 8:32 am
"Party leaders aren't going to want to give Obama supporters - especially African Americans, younger voters and the new people his candidacy has attracted to the party - the bum's rush in favor of Clinton. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 2:36 pm by Ilya Somin
John Larson (Conn.), chairman of the Democratic Caucus and the fourth-highest ranking party leader. [read post]
3 Sep 2021, 11:40 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  This was 2002, when the Republican Party was much less radicalized than it is today. [read post]
22 Oct 2018, 12:19 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
There is no Libertarian in the race, so the Democrat, Maria Jackson, should get all the anti-incumbent vote. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 3:58 am by SHG
No, Texas, he doesn’t really love you. [read post]
13 Apr 2008, 2:01 pm
The reality is, this is already an electorate with deep cultural divisions — and that’s in the Democratic Party. [read post]