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On December 15, with new Republican majorities in 19 state legislatures and hundreds of newly elected lawmakers committed to spending cuts — I attended the launch of the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Right on Crime campaign. [read post]
14 Sep 2006, 9:45 pm by Dwayne Newton
 The majority of trial court judges currently sitting in Texas are Republicans. [read post]
30 Jan 2016, 6:20 am
"Court reinstates Kountze cheerleader religious-message lawsuit": Chuck Lindell of The Austin American-Statesman has an article that begins, "In a case that has become a rallying cry for leading state Republicans and conservative Christians, the Texas Supreme Court on Friday reinstated a lawsuit by Kountze cheerleaders seeking to protect their use of religious messages during football games. [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 5:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Attorney General Greg Abbott easily sailed to reelection.A whopping 15% of the Texas House of Representatives turned over, all flipping to Republicans who won 22 new seats. [read post]
21 Aug 2021, 5:49 pm by Tom Smith
Surely this suggests that conservative Republican governance creates desirable conditions for nonwhite Americans. [read post]
21 Dec 2021, 12:50 pm by Ilya Somin
Republicans, too, can stand to learn some lessons from Texas. [read post]
10 Jun 2009, 11:22 pm
According to the Startlegram:A coalition of conservative and libertarian groups is urging Gov. [read post]
19 Jan 2013, 7:14 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But with the Texas Association of Business and the Texas Public Policy Foundation providing conservative ideological cover and a different Speaker in power, the 83rd Texas Legislature would be an excellent time to find out. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 7:08 am by Jonathan H. Adler
All were appointed by Republican presidents and sided with liberal justices on some important issues; Warren and Stevens went on to become leaders of the court’s liberal wing. . . . the accomplished Supreme Court litigator and former Texas solicitor general said he’d only settle for “rock-ribbed conservatives” who have “a long paper trail as principled conservative jurists. [read post]
5 Jun 2022, 5:35 am by Tabatha Abu El-Haj
In a full-page ad in the Dallas Morning News, “Major Republican donors, including some who have contributed to Gov. [read post]
13 Mar 2010, 4:04 am
For instance:[Conservatives] made sure that textbooks would mention the votes in Congress on civil rights legislation, which Republicans supported. [read post]
19 Oct 2009, 6:26 am
Perry defends the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham and assures conservative voters who will decide the Republican primary that the state's system of capital punishment is sound. [read post]
4 Sep 2021, 10:34 am by Tom Smith
But the governmental defendants explicitly don’t enforce the law,” Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton and other state officials told the high court.As The American Conservative senior editor Rod Dreher wrote last June, after the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s heartbeat law, the SCOTUS jurisprudence on abortion is mangled at best. [read post]
9 Jan 2014, 8:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Yesterday, Grits attended a panel at the Texas Public Policy Foundation's annual Policy Orientation (a multi-issue conference sponsored by a conservative think tank in Austin) on the topic of "Overcriminalization." [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 1:35 pm
Some quotes:AUSTIN, Texas -- Bypassing the Legislature, Republican Gov. [read post]
29 Sep 2017, 9:09 am by John Floyd
  In fact, in 2005, the Statesman reported that former North Texas conservative Republican Lawmaker Ray Allen introduced a bill that would have authorized a process for low-risk sex offenders to get off the Texas [registration] list. [read post]
6 Jul 2018, 12:45 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
In related, Texas news, check out the criminal-justice reform planks added this year to the Texas state GOP platform, here's where those planks agree with the Democratic platform, and here's a special, hour-long edition of our Reasonably Suspicious podcast interviewing Texas conservatives on various justice reform topics. [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 5:55 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit  (Legal brief in opposition to Florida’s application of strict criminal liability (lack of any intent element) in its Controlled Substances Act) The Right Prescription for the Mentally Ill in the Texas Corrections System by Marc Levin (Presentation to 4th Annual El Paso County Mental Health Law Conference) Thinking Outside the Cell: A Roadmap to More Cost-Effective Corrections by Marc Levin (Presentation to Texas Federation of… [read post]