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9 Aug 2024, 12:00 am
Hodges, the Texas Legislature has not amended the statutory "husband and wife" language. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 4:58 pm
(c) A commission or grand jury, hereinafter called the “Redistricting Commission”, consisting of 23 individuals, either drawn at random from all qualified voters in the State, or from members of the Texas House of Representatives, at the discretion of the Texas Secretary of State, unless or until the State Legislature shall provide otherwise, shall supervise the … [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 8:10 am
This is a common occurrence and one that undoubtedly leads to numerous car accidents across the state of Texas every year. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 5:31 am
"Few other states imprison prostitutes as does Texas, which has a long history of locking higher percentages of its lawbreakers in state prisons than all but a few other states," reported Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman last week. [read post]
26 Apr 2022, 7:36 am
The First Amendment’s protections do not dissipate once a platform goes from 49.9- to 50.0-million-monthly U.S. users—nor at any of the other arbitrary thresholds the Legislature considered. [read post]
29 Apr 2016, 12:54 am
Texas held that laws prohibiting sodomy violated due process. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 9:40 am
The following year the Texas Legislature enacted, and former Gov. [read post]
1 Jul 2024, 9:05 am
The opinion represents a major rebuke to the Texas and Florida legislatures for their lazy embrace of censorship and to the Fifth Circuit for its review of the Texas law. [read post]
24 Dec 2010, 8:48 am
Meanwhile, the Texas Legislature starts its session in several weeks. [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 8:24 am
The decision is just one more example of how Texas - along with a handful of other states - plans to continue deciding such cases on an individual basis. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 1:07 am
Reporter Ralph Blumenthal was particularly interested in the "strange bedfellows" aspect of the dispute, with the Texas State Rifle Association working with ACLU and the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition to produce a public policy report criticizing prosecutor excesses, which I wrote, that was released last month.Blumenthal called me a "blogger" in the story, but didn't name the blog! [read post]
9 Jun 2023, 12:34 pm
On January 23, 2023, the Court invited the Solicitor General to submit briefing expressing the views of the United States regarding the constitutionality of the Texas and Florida statutes. [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 4:37 am
How many negative consequences must the state suffer from this ill-conceived revenue-generation scheme before the Legislature finally repeals it? [read post]
7 Aug 2021, 3:45 pm
Last month, Democrats in the Texas legislature fled the state in an effort to prevent the enactment of controversial election law reforms by denying the Republican majority a legislative quorum. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 9:37 am
Here Texas repeats its arguments that federalism requires the Supreme Court ordering state legislatures to act and possibly even hold new elections because Texas does not like how other states have run their elections. [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 8:15 am
Virginia’s TRAP troubles began in 2011, when the state legislature passed a law requiring that abortion providers be regulated like hospitals. [read post]
5 Apr 2016, 10:19 am
The Texas Legislature amended the Estates Code through House Bill (H.B.) 39 and Senate Bill (S.B.) 1881, (84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015) by adding the Supported Decision-Making Agreement Act. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 11:00 am
In his 2007 State of the State address, Gov. [read post]
16 Dec 2020, 11:04 am
The Constitutions offers state legislatures plenary discretion when it comes to presidential elections and how they award the state’s electoral votes: "[e]ach state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors . . . . [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 3:50 am
It's an area where, when the state can't handle its own business, the feds eventually handle it for you, then pass on to the state a (much higher) bill.Do I expect any current Texas leader to seek to reverse this trend? [read post]
