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4 Aug 2021, 3:10 pm by John McFarland
Abbott said the legislature’s response to the breakdown of Texas’ electric grid “fixed all the flaws. [read post]
2 Aug 2021, 8:32 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Lets' hope sanity prevails.Grits has said before, I believe the 87th Texas Legislature featured the ascendance of a brand American fascism that had heretofore been constrained by business and libertarian factions in the Texas GOP. [read post]
2 Aug 2021, 4:30 am by Eric Segall
He also wrote a short opinion explaining that, although he agreed with Scalia that the law was constitutional, he would vote against this law if he were in the legislature: “If I were a member of the Texas Legislature, I would vote to repeal it. [read post]
1 Aug 2021, 7:48 am by Russell Cawyer
Effective September 1, 2021, a pair of bills passed by the Texas Legislature will expand the scope of employer liability for claims of sexual harassment. [read post]
31 Jul 2021, 11:02 am by Josh Blackman
Here, Treasury determined that the Committee's stated purpose–lawmaking–was pretextual. [read post]
30 Jul 2021, 7:18 pm by Michael Lowe
Felony Crimes Under Texas Law The Texas Legislature has created five (5) different types of felonies as defined by state statute. [read post]
30 Jul 2021, 12:18 pm by Jacquelyne Germain
Texas is just one of the many states involved in the national critical race theory debate in which various states are proposing and passing bills that seek to rob young people of an inclusive education while blatantly suppressing speech about race and gender. [read post]
30 Jul 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Legislatures in 17 states have passed 29 bills that would in some way curtail a voter’s access, according to a tally maintained by the Brennan Center for Justice. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 11:23 am by Emily Dindial
In Texas, 95 percent of arrest warrants issued in 2016 were for unpaid fines and fees, and more than 640,000 people were jailed as a result. [read post]
23 Jul 2021, 11:20 am by admin
Janis Graham Jack, in Corpus Christi, Texas. [read post]
21 Jul 2021, 10:01 am by Josh Blackman
The opinion also does not undermine the fundamental structure and purposes of the State Bar of Texas, which was established by the Texas Legislature in aid of the Texas Supreme Court's inherent authority to regulate the practice of law. [read post]
21 Jul 2021, 8:03 am by Asaf Lubin, João Marinotti
” The development of a new botnet-hunting portfolio for Microsoft over time also meant increased collaboration with the FBI and with law enforcement agencies outside the United States. [read post]
21 Jul 2021, 12:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Any time any person or entity invokes a federal or state statute as a plaintiff or a defendant, they can point to Congress or the state legislature as having acted. [read post]
20 Jul 2021, 1:30 pm by [email protected]
Defendants who are charged with violent or sexual crimes may find it more difficult to bond out of jail pretrial following legislation passed in the Texas legislature earlier this month. [read post]
20 Jul 2021, 12:00 am by [email protected]
Defendants who are charged with violent or sexual crimes may find it more difficult to bond out of jail pretrial following legislation passed in the Texas legislature earlier this month. [read post]
19 Jul 2021, 9:39 am by Amy Starnes
The opinion also does not undermine the fundamental structure and purposes of the State Bar of Texas, which was established by the Texas Legislature in aid of the Texas Supreme Court’s inherent authority to regulate the practice of law. [read post]
18 Jul 2021, 9:10 pm by Robert H. Jerry, II
Yet since 2008, the legislature reportedly has diverted approximately $65 million, or nearly 40 percent, of the trust’s funds into the state’s general fund. [read post]
17 Jul 2021, 1:00 pm by Michael Lowe
The Texas Legislature has created a range of felony punishments for criminal acts as defined by state law, and state jail felonies are the lowest level felony sentence. [read post]
16 Jul 2021, 12:45 pm by Sophia Lin Lakin
Earlier this week, Texas Democrats fled the state in a last-ditch effort to prevent the passage of a restrictive new voting law by the Republican-controlled legislature. [read post]
16 Jul 2021, 12:00 am by Jim Sedor
In red states, blue states, and swing states, these leaders – nearly all of whom were elected during Trump’s presidency or right after – are redefining the traditional role of the state party chair. [read post]