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30 May 2011, 7:54 am
Shannon Edmonds at the Texas District and County Attorneys Association last week bemoaned pro-civil liberties views among Tea Party-backed politicos, worrying that legislators appear less fearful than in the past of openly criticizing prosecutors and their expansionist view of government:This session's infusion of Tea Party sentiment in the legislative process has affected the standard law and order calculus that we use to gauge the potential fate of various bills. … [read post]
29 May 2011, 3:01 pm
Human rights matter – send money to Darfur, Republicans are evil, Warren is Harvard professor, Obama not afraid of what people think, Nuclear power is bad, Thank God for Bill Clinton, Republican controlled congress threatens to block anything the Democrats need to do. [read post]
29 May 2011, 10:39 am
There seems to be many in the Republican party who feel it’s just too easy to vote these days. [read post]
26 May 2011, 7:23 am
The Texas House yesterday voted in favor of a bill that earlier won Senate passage and requires parties who lose a motion to dismiss their claims to pay the other sides’ court costs and attorneys’ fees. [read post]
26 May 2011, 5:14 am
At a speech in El Paso, Texas, near the United States-Mexican border, United States president Barack Obama seemed to be frustrated at the fact that the Republican party controls the House of Representatives, making it difficult to pass any new immigration laws. [read post]
25 May 2011, 7:25 pm
Kashmir Hill writes: Republican Dan Patrick, who was the sponsor of the bill in the Senate, withdrew it when he realized he would not have the votes he needed to pass it. [read post]
25 May 2011, 1:56 pm
But Republican state Sen. [read post]
25 May 2011, 9:05 am
But Republicans' efforts were unsuccessful on Tuesday. [read post]
24 May 2011, 6:37 am
Brandon Creighton, the Republican sponsor of the Texas House bill. [read post]
20 May 2011, 1:35 pm
Today, with almost 100,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan and despite reports of “war fatigue,” even among Congressional Republicans, as well as plummeting poll numbers among Americans generally, the new debate is similarly narrow, similarly focused, and deeply familiar, a kind of less-versus-less version of the more-versus-more duke-em-out of 2009. [read post]
19 May 2011, 11:30 am
The WSJ had this article before the vote this morning.Update 2: ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: The vote was largely along party lines, with only a few exceptions: Nebraska's Ben Nelson split with his fellow Democrats to vote against Liu, while Alaska's Lisa Murkowski voted for Liu.Utah Republican Orrin Hatch voted present, while four senators did not vote at all: David Vitter, R-Louisiana; Jerry Moran, R-Kansas; Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas; and… [read post]
19 May 2011, 9:28 am
Texas law already provides for a form of "loser pays" that lets parties whose settlement offers are rejected get their costs paid when a jury awards less than was offered. [read post]
18 May 2011, 12:58 pm
" In Texas, for example, any semblance of a “welfare” state is being destroyed by Republicans whose expectations of “rugged independence” appear to extend to both children and the elderly who might need medical care. [read post]
18 May 2011, 11:13 am
Burt Solomons, R-Carrollton, on a party line vote May 10. [read post]
18 May 2011, 7:36 am
It is intolerable no matter who occupies the White House and no matter which party is the majority party in the Senate... [read post]
12 May 2011, 11:45 am
For example, Texas passed reforms in 2007 that increased the use of drug treatment, parole, and probation and decreased reliance on prisons. [read post]
8 May 2011, 9:10 pm
Many Republicans and some Democrats oppose the measures Mr. [read post]
4 May 2011, 11:19 am
John Cornyn (R-Texas). [read post]
2 May 2011, 4:14 am
It will be interesting to see whether the "social-conservative" wing of the Republican party wins out over the "business-conservative" wing. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 5:54 am
It's actually not true that "Texas has always been a pretty Republican state," unless by "Republican," you mean something other than the Republican Party. [read post]
