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11 May 2010, 7:21 am by Bill Araiza
  At the time I observed (from my vantage point of someone born in Texas and then living in California) that the two states’ Republican parties had very different success rates with Latino voters. [read post]
29 Dec 2013, 7:48 am by Mark Graber
  Republicans win the struggle to be the legitimate party of the people (in part by slaughtering rivals), at least temporarily, and the post-Civil War Amendments are designed to entrench that constitutional politics. [read post]
5 Nov 2012, 7:46 am
  (Younger readers might be amazed to learn that bright-red Texas was, until the late 1990's, home to a Democratic Party that was very competitive with that state's Republican Party. [read post]
23 Sep 2016, 8:30 am by Sandy Levinson
 In any event, there is (justified) rioting in the streets at the prospect of the narcissistic sociopath actually becoming president and in revulsion at the circumstances that brought this eventuality to passt.2)  Tremendous pressure is placed by "Party elders" on Republican electors to vote for, say, Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan. [read post]
13 Dec 2006, 1:41 pm
The American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution have collaborated on a project designed to address the issue and have proposed a constitutional amendment, co-sponsored by Texas Republican John Cornyn and Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold (among others). [read post]
4 Sep 2021, 10:34 am by Tom Smith
But Texas lawmakers devised a measure that shifts enforcement from the state to private parties. [read post]
16 Jul 2021, 12:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal An American Kingdom MSN – Stephanie McCrummen (Washington Post) | Published: 7/11/2021 There is growing Christian movement that is nondenominational, openly political, and has become an engine of former President Trump’s Republican Party. [read post]
1 Mar 2008, 9:01 pm
Both campaign advisors and Obama told him in interviews, Obama is hoping to appoint cross-party figures to his cabinet such as Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator for Nebraska and an opponent of the Iraq war, and Richard Lugar, leader of the Republicans on the Senate foreign relations committee. [read post]
6 Nov 2018, 10:33 am by Sean Gallagher
In six Texas counties during early voting, it was reported that voters casting a straight party ticket had their vote for US senator checked for the wrong candidate: Democrats found that their vote was being cast for Sen. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 6:52 am by Joe Palazzolo
Rick Perry of Texas, for example, wants term limits for Supreme Court justices. [read post]
17 Apr 2021, 3:59 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
And many "small government" conservatives would be on board with the idea, just as HB 830 has both Republican and Democratic authors.Finally, readers may recall that eliminating Class C arrests was one of the areas of agreement between the Democratic and Republican Party platforms in Texas on criminal-justice reform, a recollection that gives me the opportunity to bring back this short video with one of my favorite jingles:  [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 8:07 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The group surveyed 1,001 likely voters in Texas and said the findings had a 3.1 percent margin of error.In a column at the Statesman, TPPF's Sarah Rumpf elaborated on the findings:For example, 79 percent of Texans favor sending nonviolent drug offenders to treatment instead of prison, and analyzing the responses by party affiliation, 81 percent of Republicans, 89 percent of Democrats and 86 percent of independents are in support. [read post]
12 Jul 2009, 6:34 am
Indeed, this year's vetoed legislation to allow judges to approve de-registration in Romeo and Juliet cases was filed by Republican Todd Smith, an indication that concerns about overreach in this area don't necessarily fall along party lines.The group at Texas Voices have a tough row to hoe, and for the family members it's not one they've chosen. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 8:50 am
Two commentaries are: Kenneth Foster and Clemency The Law of Parties and Kenneth Foster Another commentary on Texas clemency is: Eric Nenno and Texas Clemency In 2005, Texas Appleseed and the Texas Innocence Network published, "The Role of Mercy: Safegaurding Texas Justice Through Clemency Reform," which examined best practices in executive clemency. [read post]
11 Mar 2024, 3:24 pm by Derek T. Muller
” So, too, were contributions to the Green Party or the Libertarian Party. [read post]