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26 Apr 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” [Ann Althouse] Testing issue allows teachers’ unions to make friends on the conservative side [NYT via same] Legal costs exceed $100 per student at some Chicago-area public schools; $23 billed for one lawyer’s phone message [Tribune via ABA Journal] Maintenance of Effort laws, meant to insulate school budgets against local voter control, might backfire [Free State Notes post by me, channeling my letter to the editor] A dissent on liberalizing school discipline policies [Paul… [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 2:27 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
All of our hair and fiber examiners were trained by the feds and use the same techniques.A rare look at court costsThe Austin Monitor's Tyler Whitson took a rare, in-depth look at court costs litigation by former GOP Court of Criminal Appeals candidate Jani Maselli Wood, issues with which Grits readers are familiar but which are admirably laid out in Whitson's article. [read post]
22 Apr 2015, 5:32 am by Jim Sedor
Lobbying “What We Get Wrong about Lobbying and Corruption” by Lee Drutman for Washington Post “Lobbyists Slow to Cash in on Republican-Led Congress” by Megan Wilson for The Hill Campaign Finance “Campaign Finance System Is Broken Says GOP Super-Lawyer Jim Bopp” by Michael Beckel for Center for Public Integrity Kansas: “Ex-Lawmaker Sentenced to 18 Months in Jail for Bank Fraud” by Nicholas Clayton (Associated Press) for Kansas City Star Ethics… [read post]
21 Apr 2015, 8:56 am by WIMS
Markey: On 5th Anniversary of BP Spill, GOP Moves to Overturn Oil Export Ban - Sen Ed Markey (D-MA) said, "...We shouldn't be talking about selling American oil abroad when the oil industry still can get away with only a financial slap on the wrist for an oil spill... [read post]
21 Apr 2015, 8:39 am by Tom Smith
With the GOP hoping to terrify voters with the prospect of Hillary-as-Obama-third-term, and with the 2016 GOP hopefuls zealously vowing to roll back the Obama presidency, Republicans will likely continue re-litigating how awful the Obama years have supposedly been. [read post]
21 Apr 2015, 6:23 am by Jim Sedor
Lobbying Arkansas: “30-Day Grace Vexes State’s Ethics Panel” by Michael Wickline for Arkansas Online Campaign Finance “House Quietly Passes Tax Exemption for Megadonors” by Kenneth Vogel and Hillary Flynn for Politico “Big Money in Politics Emerges as a Rising Issue in 2016 Campaign” by Matea Gold for Washington Post Ethics Florida: “Florida Ethics Panel Recommends Fining Former Lawmaker David Rivera $58K” by Kathleen McGrory for Miami Herald… [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 7:24 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
Many potential GOP presidential candidates, including Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Rick Perry have indicated that they would leave the choice up to the individual states while N.J. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 10:02 am by Tom Smith
And why Scott Walker should be our next President (not that other GOP contenders would not be OK). [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 8:29 am by Big Tent Democrat
So now the NYTimes is openly in the business of doing steno for the GOP. [read post]
19 Apr 2015, 3:24 pm
"The GOP's new favorite law professor: Obama's mentor. [read post]
19 Apr 2015, 5:14 am
" I predict that the GOP candidates will go out of their way to seem gender-neutral and to avoid giving Hillary and her supporters material they can use to do more War-on-Women politics. [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 9:06 pm by Lyle Denniston
Congressional opponents of same-sex marriage are represented by fifty-seven members, states trying to hold onto to or revive their states’ bans have joined in a fifteen-state brief, the Platform Committee of the 2012 Republican National Convention has filed a brief lauding the GOP’s defense of traditional marriage, and international law scholars from twenty-seven nations have joined in arguing that America would be an exception to the “consensus” in… [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 3:18 am by Gritsforbreakfast
David Simpson defending his legalize-it bill in his home district, and an article about GOP support for Rep. [read post]
16 Apr 2015, 8:18 pm
"Candidates says $500,000 contribution will level the field in GOP primary for Supreme Court": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "A candidate who received the largest single campaign contribution reported so far in Pennsylvania's Supreme Court race said Thursday that the $500,000 will make him competitive in the May 19 Republican primary. [read post]
16 Apr 2015, 8:03 pm by Alan J. Borsuk
Mark Murray, senior political editor for NBC News, re-tweeted several of the poll’s Tweets, and then posted a Tweet of his own: “Marquette Law poll — the gold standard in WI — is not good news for Walker, GOP in state. [read post]
16 Apr 2015, 9:52 am
In a recent interview on National Public Radio, GOP presidential candidate Sen. [read post]
16 Apr 2015, 8:58 am
Zeke J Miller and Haley Sweetland Edwards of Time magazine report that "New Strategy Against Gay Marriage Divides GOP 2016 Field; Activists want to take on the Supreme Court. [read post]
14 Apr 2015, 5:33 pm by Yishai Schwartz
No longer would the administration have to convince a skeptical GOP that the deal was a good one. [read post]