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19 Dec 2013, 2:18 pm by Jamie Ribman
  Warning that “companies could use drones for information gathering whether that is taking a photograph of your patio furniture or recording the make and model of your car,” Texas Republican Representative Ted Poe introduced legislation to protect people’s privacy from drones. [read post]
17 Dec 2013, 3:18 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
“The DNA exonerations have changed the terms of the debate for everyone,” says Scott Henson, policy director for the Innocence Project of Texas, which lobbied for the “junk science” law and several other similar measures.Henson credits Republican lawmakers open to religious appeals for changing attitudes about criminal justice, beginning in 2003 when the party took control of both houses of the state legislature. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 3:50 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
A couple of bizarre developments on the electoral front:First, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Larry Meyers has changed parties and announced he's running for the Texas Supreme Court as a Democrat. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 11:15 am by Don Cruse
As reported by the Star-Telegram, Justice Meyers is switching from the Republican to Democratic Party.1 The Libertarian candidate will be Mark Ash, who was also a candidate in 2012. [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]
5 Dec 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Senate (provided the person is not someone who has already been nominated by a primary election or political party committee), then that person is eligible (along with all others who also were nominated by twenty percent of the legislature) to be voted on by the entire legislature. [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 4:53 am by Jon Gelman
Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, said fraud cuts the amount of money available for legitimate asbestos claims. [read post]
15 Oct 2013, 7:58 pm by Sandy Levinson
  He is more truly contemptible even than the junior Senator from Texas, who is, as Jack Balkin has argued, a combination of Lenin, Joe McCarthy, and Huey Long, without the slightest trace of loyalty to the institutional Republican Party. [read post]
13 Oct 2013, 6:15 pm by Sandy Levinson
  After all, he is clearly going to run for President in 2016, and perhaps he will leave the Tea Party crazies (who I would like to think are a minority of the Tea Party itself) to the junior senator from Texas). [read post]
11 Oct 2013, 6:21 am by Joe May
Texas – Red River Rivalry Fundraising a Growing Trend Texas Tribune – David Maly | Published: 10/9/2013 The annual football game between the University of Texas and Oklahoma University is increasingly becoming a fundraising hotspot for lawmakers in both parties. [read post]
8 Oct 2013, 5:35 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Republicans were split more or less equally on the subject of marijuana legalization, with 48 percent supporting the idea and 49 percent opposing. [read post]
1 Oct 2013, 1:58 pm by JP
That's why the Republican Party might shut down the government and default on the debt." [read post]
29 Sep 2013, 10:49 am
He addresses me — "Ann" — and informs me that "One senator is running the show in the Republican Party right now." [read post]
28 Sep 2013, 3:41 pm by Sandy Levinson
Mickey Edwards, in his book The Parties Versus the People:  How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans (Yale U. [read post]
25 Sep 2013, 8:29 pm by Sandy Levinson
King out of the Republican Party, or is it possible that this is the beginning of the end for the terrorism practiced by the not-yet-ex-Canadian junior senator from Texas? [read post]