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23 Sep 2013, 7:38 pm by Sandy Levinson
It's true of Ted Cruz, who wants nothing so much (quite literally) as to take over the Republican Party and, ideally (from his perspective) become President. [read post]
23 Sep 2013, 9:08 am by J. Gordon Hylton
For that to have happened, there would have had to have been a candidate who could have appealed to both Northern and Southern Democrats and those Whigs and American Party members who did not support the new Republican Party. [read post]
16 Aug 2013, 6:49 am by Jim Sedor
., the Town Hall Meeting, Cools Down New York Times – Jeremy Peters | Published: 8/12/2013 Though Republicans in recent years have harnessed the political power of town hall meetings, people from both parties say they are noticing a decline in the number of such events. [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 8:54 am by Adam Winkler
University of Texas (affirmative action), Shelby County v. [read post]
26 Jul 2013, 8:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Overall, 94 Republicans voted for the amendment, and 134 against it.One wonders whether some of the Republicans on the list might find themselves defending this vote in next year's primary against Tea-Party oriented challengers. [read post]
23 Jul 2013, 1:26 pm by WIMS
    Concern about the program extends across party lines. [read post]
22 Jul 2013, 4:39 am by Steve Shiffrin
Here is Moser again: “Republican like to talk about how Latinos are ‘hard-working, religious, family-oriented,’ as if those qualities automatically made people conservative. [read post]
18 Jul 2013, 10:27 am by Joey Fishkin
 Today, tea party types reward, and demand, Republicans who will “just say no” to bipartisan compromise and to money from Washington. [read post]
10 Jul 2013, 3:29 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Edmonds said that with more libertarian-leaning members of the Republican Party, the approach has become less focused on Texas’ traditional tough-on-crime ways. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 4:17 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Wendy Davis'  nationally hailed filibuster which, in case you've been living in a cave, helped run out time on Republicans' big abortion bill on the final day of Texas' first special session, spurring the governor to call another one. [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 6:32 am by Gritsforbreakfast
(See earlier coverage rounded up here, here, and here.)Before It's News: One Giant Leap for Privacy: Texas now requires warrant for content The Daily Dot: Texas enacts email privacy lawTom's Guide to tech for real life: Texas law now can't snoop in email without a warrant  CultureMap Austin: Texas to feds: Come and take it (our digital data)Red Alert Politics: New law in Texas requires warrants to search emails Higher Thinking Primate: Texas… [read post]
22 Jun 2013, 8:55 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Perhaps the best-known example is Judge Michael McSpadden, a Republican jurist in Harris County who for the past few sessions has gotten most of his Harris County judicial colleagues from both parties to sign onto a letter asking the Legislature to take less-than-a-gram cases off their dockets by reducing the charge to a misdemeanor. [read post]
19 Jun 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In February 2010, an insane man killed his family in his home, and then flew his private plane into an IRS office building in Austin, Texas, killing himself and an IRS employee, and injuring fourteen other people. [read post]
17 Jun 2013, 1:31 pm by JB
If state political elites are allied with (or captured by) the business community, they may behave quite differently.A good example is the decision by Governor Rick Perry and other Republican governors to forgo the expans [read post]
10 Jun 2013, 8:12 am by Steven Gursten
And it was the insurance companies that pushed these Republican justices on the Michigan Supreme Court who never saw the big picture, and who never stopped to wonder why the attorney-chiropractor insurance fraud that had already existed in states like Texas and Florida couldn’t be trans [read post]
9 Jun 2013, 5:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The article hailed:Perry's fiery tone and focus on non-Texas issues while addressing the National Federation of the Grand Order of Pachyderm Clubs, a Republican grassroots group active in 14 states." [read post]