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8 Dec 2020, 8:14 am
The filings further ask the Supreme Court to prevent the defendant states from appointing electors based upon certified election returns and require the defendant state legislatures to appoint electors directly. [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 7:31 am
Major crime reform bills often fail in the Texas legislature. [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 7:31 am
Major crime reform bills often fail in the Texas legislature. [read post]
27 Nov 2020, 3:38 pm
Public schools, on the other hand, lack First Amendment rights that they can assert against the state legislature: "[A] political subdivision, 'created by a state for the better ordering of government, has no privileges or immunities under the federal constitution which it may invoke in opposition to the will of its creator.'" [read post]
25 Nov 2020, 9:18 am
The 87th Texas Legislature will not begin their next session until January; however, state lawmakers are already filing their legislative proposals for 2021, some of which touch on criminal law. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 12:02 pm
The Texas Legislature has passed specific criminal statutes designed to punish those who financially abuse the elderly. [read post]
21 Nov 2020, 5:50 am
Already, dozens of new crimes and penalty increases have been filed as bills at the Texas Legislature. [read post]
19 Nov 2020, 9:05 pm
Representative Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, reportedly called the withdrawal “a mistake. [read post]
18 Nov 2020, 3:12 pm
Texas knows what a licensing agency should look like; the state runs a ton of them. [read post]
17 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
It is the state legislatures or Congress that make the law, they liked to say, not a small number of unelected judges. [read post]
17 Nov 2020, 4:55 am
Taxes, Fees, and Government Charges on Wireless Service, July 2020 State Rankings 2020 Wireless State-Local Rate 2019 Federal USF Rate 2020 Combined Federal/State/Local Rate 1 Illinois 22.37% 9.83% 32.20% 2 Arkansas 20.21% 9.83% 30.04% 3 Washington 19.83% 9.83% 29.66% 4 Nebraska 19.30% 9.83% 29.13% 5 New York 18.75% 9.83% 28.59% 6 Kansas 16.68% 9.83% 26.51% 7 Utah 16.64% 9.83% 26.47% 8 Pennsylvania 16.48% 9.83% 26.31% 9 Rhode Island 15.39% 9.83% 25.22% 10 North… [read post]
16 Nov 2020, 6:06 pm
” Third, this straightforward lack of federal-court jurisdiction in a vote-counting case is why Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election had no recourse to federal courts as an option for the possibility of overturning allegations of fraud in favor of the Kennedy-Johnson ticket in both Illinois and Texas. [read post]
14 Nov 2020, 1:58 pm
Indeed, I assigned materials across the ideological spectrum, including the so-called "Texas Plan" put forth by Texas Governor Greg Abbott that advocates nine important structural changes--one of them similar to that advocated by Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett that would allow state legislatures to nullify federal legislation--and Lloyd Cutler's article from 1980, "To Form A Government," that advocated a number of changes to… [read post]
14 Nov 2020, 12:24 pm
So the Texas Court of Appeals held yesterday, in State v. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 4:32 am
The Texas SG noted that the United States is a defendant in the ACA case (as has Josh Blackman in a previous post). [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 5:20 am
United States, 529 U.S. 848, 857 (2000) (internal citation omitted); see also NFIB, 567 U.S. at 562 (Opinion of Roberts, C.J.). [read post]
11 Nov 2020, 10:48 am
The court added that only the state’s legislature could change the law. [read post]
11 Nov 2020, 5:43 am
The AGs of Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas claimed that this decision overstepped the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s constitutional authority and encroached on the Pennsylvania legislature’s authority, which violated separation of powers. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
Texas, but the state most implicated is best known for neither movie studios nor rodeos but peaches. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 11:43 am
A list of clinics and events around the state can be found here. [read post]
