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26 May 2017, 4:16 am by SHG
In a less-than-bipartisan showing, Texas Senator John Cornyn has introduced a bill to warm the cockles of every law-and-order conservative’s heart. [read post]
2 Oct 2011, 7:08 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Criminal justice reform has never been a Perry priority, but as support for reforms grew among Texas Republicans, quite a few good bills passed on his watch and with a few notable exceptions he usually signed them. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 1:41 pm by James S. Friedman, LLC
Crow is also very active in conservative politics, making donations to all kinds of conservative causes, including conservative republican politicians and the Federalist Society. [read post]
7 Jan 2024, 11:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Dallas mayor -- a former Democratic state rep -- came out as a Republican last year, as for all intents and purposes did the new Houston mayor. [read post]
31 Jul 2007, 8:34 am
If "too conservative" is reason enough for Democratic senators to block a floor vote on Southwick, who is no right-wing culture warrior, then "too liberal" will be reason enough for Senate Republicans to do the same when the shoe is on the other foot. [read post]
10 May 2022, 6:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
Bush, a Republican, anti-abortion supporter of government funded faith-based social services. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 7:06 pm
Could this viewpoint have swayed any of the four conservatives? [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 12:25 pm
Texas Republican Randy Neugebauer wryly called the eight banks on the hot-seat today "TSEs," or taxpayer-supported entities, and said "I think we can call this a shareholders meeting. [read post]
19 Jun 2010, 6:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Other judges on the court (all conservative Republicans) have episodically begun to resist, however, and these decisions reflect a recent trend of Keller's colleagues starting to push her aside and correct course.I don't imagine Democrat Keith Hampton, who couldn't even win an election among criminal defense lawyers, has much of a chance this fall against Michael Keasler, a charter member of Keller and Hervey's extremist faction on the court. [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 4:03 am by Marcia Coyle
Texas to decide whether the law will survive in whole, in part, or not at all. [read post]
19 Jul 2011, 1:14 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Every member of the Texas CCA is a rock-ribbed Republican with impeccable pro-death penalty, pro-law enforcement credentials, which is why in Grits view there's no "liberal" faction on the court nor even a centrist one. [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 12:08 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
   He even calls other people racists -- repeatedly.This, too, is a problem for supposedly liberal pundits as well as conservatives. [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 7:45 am by Elina Saxena
Ben Carson, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Ohio Governor John Kasich, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, and Mr. [read post]
3 Jan 2016, 5:00 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But from Grits' perspective, trends on Texas' high criminal court remain uncertain and aren't necessarily headed in the same reform-minded direction that legislative conservatives more openly embrace. [read post]
3 Oct 2018, 7:55 am by Gritsforbreakfast
And it will contribute significantly to decarceration goals at Texas county jails.For fiscally minded conservatives, those 60,000 defendants are costing taxpayers' needlessly for jail and indigent defense costs at a time when counties are complaining of unfunded mandates. [read post]
2 Nov 2010, 7:53 am by Susan I. Nelson
  "Unlike the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition, which relies on federal and state grants, BorderSheriffs relies on support from a conservative anti-immigrant foundation in Iowa and from a powerful conservative Phoenix-based law firm, which combine to underwrite the ad hoc organization’s expenses, enable its presence in the legal fight, and help project its hard-line message on the border and immigrants. [read post]
23 Oct 2015, 3:35 am by Randy Barnett
Seblius created a great disturbance in the force of the conservative legal movement and in conservative politics generally. [read post]
28 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Anil Kalhan
Earlier this month, Judge Andrew Hanen—the Bush-appointed judge in Texas who, back in 2015, Republican state elected officials handpicked to give legal effect to their political attacks on the Obama administration’s immigration policies—issued his latest ruling invalidating DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative. [read post]