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5 Jan 2010, 6:20 am
Place 3 (open) Jeff Brown (R) Justice, 14th Court of Appeals Rick Green (R) Attorney Debra Lehrmann (R) District Judge from Fort Worth Jim Mosely (R) Justice, 5th Court of Appeals Jim Sharp (D) Justice, 1st Court of Appeals Rebecca Simmons (R) Justice, 4th Court of Appeals Rick Strange (R) Justice, 11th Court of Appeals William Strange (L) Attorney Place 5 (Green) Paul Green (R) Incumbent Bill Moody (D) District Judge from El Paso Tom Oxford (L) Attorney Place 9 (Guzman) Jack Armstrong (L) Attorney… [read post]
3 Mar 2015, 4:39 am
The comments reacting to coverage of the bill from Breitbart News demonstrate some of the ideological fault lines within the party over libertarian causes like this one. [read post]
4 May 2021, 7:15 am
Both major parties have much to learn from Texas' experience.] [read post]
11 Aug 2007, 1:26 am
Texas elects our judges, and in the case of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals we have elected a group who Texas Monthly has called "Texas' worst court," and who continue to affirm draconian sentences in the face of legitimate "actual innocence" claims.First DNA wasn't good enough to exonerate someone, now they're relying on narrowly construed technicalities to refuse to consider new evidence in a death case. [read post]
2 Jul 2009, 12:49 pm
Ron Paul is a secret stooge because he voluntarily complied with licensing requirements of the Texas Medical Board. [read post]
25 Jan 2022, 5:45 am
Or paying a third-party vendor. [read post]
8 Jul 2013, 11:57 am
Between Perry's departure and the arrival of a new, more libertarian Tea Party contingent at the Legislature, perhaps 2015 would be a good time to revisit that topic. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 9:02 pm
It then ordered the parties to submit proposals for “interim” plans, to be adopted by the District Court for use on a temporary basis in the 2012 elections. [read post]
2 Aug 2021, 8:32 am
Lets' hope sanity prevails.Grits has said before, I believe the 87th Texas Legislature featured the ascendance of a brand American fascism that had heretofore been constrained by business and libertarian factions in the Texas GOP. [read post]
9 Apr 2009, 4:54 am
What's more, the motive of those conservatives voting with the "Nays" appears to be fundamentally civil libertarian. [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 1:17 pm
Former Congressman Bob Barr, who is the Libertarian Party’s nominee for President (and who pioneered the modern use of Tina Fey glasses by national candidates) has filed a mandamus petition in the Texas Supreme Court to get both Barack Obama and John McCain off the Texas ballot. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 7:05 am
Here in Texas, the Tea Parties are huge thanks a whole lot of things, from our state’s unique take on things to Katrina Pierson to Gov Perry. [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 6:21 am
When one closely examines the politics of bipartisan justice reforms, support on the Republican side comes from four discrete sources: 1) libertarians (particularly from the Ron-Paul wing of the party), 2) Second Amendment advocates (many of whom enthusiastically support the rest of the Bill of Rights), 3) office-holders worried about budgets (read: fiscal conservatives), and 4) religious conservatives, or at least a faction of them.This article from Christianity… [read post]
3 May 2018, 1:43 pm
(Of course, the GOP takeover happened anyway.)It's not that there were no critics back in the mid-'90s, but they were disempowered and disorganized: A few Ron Paul libertarians on the right and a few black Democrats on the fringes of the party. [read post]
27 May 2021, 9:36 am
By engaging with libertarian factions and more compassionate elements in the religious wing of the party, I've argued in innumerable trainings and funder conversations, the criminal-justice reform movement in Texas was attempting to "blunt the spear tip of American fascism. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 2:47 am
Somebody has to sit in the office next to Sharon "Killer" Keller.Mark is running on the Libertarian Party line. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 5:13 am
The option, known as the "straight-party" device, gives obvious advantage to parties with high voter-registration totals, while erecting roadblocks to otherwise over-performing candidates from third parties.Like, say, Libertarian Senate candidate Gary Johnson.We've had this option in Wisconsin, and I'd never thought of it as a special problem. [read post]
21 Sep 2009, 9:26 am
Glasheen, a self-described Republican from the "Libertarian wing of the party," hopes new DNA testing on old evidence will free more prisoners. [read post]
23 May 2012, 10:25 am
Here's a paragraph that makes my libertarian blood boil. [read post]
7 May 2019, 9:22 am
That makes it a wedge issue for Democrats (not to mention Libertarians, who may swing elections at the margins by siphoning off Republican votes).Republicans in swing districts, by Grits' calculations, supported HB 63 by a 2-1 margin. [read post]
