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22 Aug 2014, 4:58 am
Rick Perry on two felony counts, saying he abused his office and used a veto threat to coerce Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg to resign. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
Take Perry’s demand that Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg resign or else have the funding for her office cut off. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 9:56 am
Cornell law professor Michael Dorf, for instance, is unpersuaded by the veto power argument: Governor Perry’s defense team is at least initially taking the position that Perry has done nothing wrong because he was simply exercising one of the powers that the Texas Constitution vests in him as governor, namely vetoing legislation, in this instance the entire budget of the public corruption unit overseen by the Travis County District Attorney. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 7:58 am
Perry threatened to veto $7.4 million in state funding to the Travis County Public Integrity Unit, an initiative that... [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 7:26 am
Randy Travis looks defiant in his DUI mugshot:That's not what you want. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 7:05 am
My favorite statement so far on the Rick Perry indictment comes from Senator Ted Cruz: "Unfortunately there has been a sad history of the Travis County District Atttorney's Office engaging in politically-motivated prosecutions, and this latest indictment of the governor... [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 4:00 am
Weber and Will Weissert concerning the indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry by a grand jury for allegedly “abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption” the article states that “No one disputes that Perry is allowed to veto measures approved by the Legislature, including part or all of the state budget. [read post]
17 Aug 2014, 3:04 pm
[JURIST] Texas Governor Rick Perry [official website] on Friday was indicted by a Travis County [official website] grand jury on two felony charges for abuse of power [indictment, PDF]. [read post]
17 Aug 2014, 12:12 pm
Steve Hayward on Powerline writes:[L]et's not move on before taking in the proximate cause of political dispute, the conduct of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, who ironically runs the "public integrity section" of the DA's office while obviously having no public integrity whatsoever. [read post]
16 Aug 2014, 7:20 pm
Yet I don’t see how this can possibly apply to Perry’s behavior, which is “carr[ying] out a promise [using his veto power] to nix $7.5 million over two years for the public integrity unit run by the office of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. [read post]
16 Aug 2014, 12:01 am
Perry was also indicted under another statute, which I won’t discuss in this post.) [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 8:23 pm
"The Travis County district attorney’s office has long been a cesspool of corruption. [read post]
5 Aug 2014, 11:34 am
Top 5 ridiculous Kansas campaign cash purchases” by Travis Perry in Kansas Watchdog. [read post]
19 May 2014, 9:02 am
Rick Perry (R) used his line-item veto authority to zero out appropriations for the Travis County Public Integrity Unit, a watchdog that investigates criminal activity in state government, including the governor’s office. [read post]
5 May 2014, 9:30 am
Perry: Texas won't comply with federal Prison Rape Elimination Act [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 7:28 am
Rick Perry carried out to veto funding for the Public Integrity Unit under Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 1:23 pm
” Other highlights of Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2013: The Year in Review:Texas accounted for approximately 42% of all U.S. executions this year and twice as many as any other state. 269 executions have occurred during the administration of Texas Governor Rick Perry (2001 - present), more than any other governor in U.S. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 3:40 pm
Rick Perry from appointing a Republican as her successor (Terry Keel and John Bradley were names I heard floated), but given that after 30+ years her retirement must be vested, I can't fathom the thinking behind her cost-benefit analysis. [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 3:00 pm
Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg Rosemary Lehmberg was arrested for drunk driving in April, admitted her guilt, and served 20 days of a 45 day jail sentence before being released to return to her job as District Attorney for Travis County. [read post]
28 Jun 2013, 2:07 pm
Perry has called another special session beginning July 1st on the same topics. [read post]
