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5 Jul 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Backed by Federalist Society lawyers, this movement was created by Texas governor Greg Abbott, former Republican Senator Rick Santorum, and their allies to turn cronies in red state capitols across the nation into convention delegates. [read post]
21 Feb 2024, 9:00 am by William Banks
  Texas Governor Greg Abbott reacted with a statement claiming that the Constitution grants states a right to defend themselves against “invasion,” and that Texas authority “supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary. [read post]
24 Oct 2023, 7:41 am by Kate Huddleston
He was in the office for 45 minutes at the same time as Texas Republican Party chair Matt Rinaldi, who has disclaimed any meeting and disavowed Fuentes. [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 3:48 am by Seán Binder
  Texas Governor Greg Abbott tweeted on Saturday that he requested a state pardon board review the case of Daniel Perry, who was found guilty of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester, Garrett Foster, at a demonstration in the summer of 2020 in Austin, Texas. [read post]
29 Dec 2022, 9:05 pm by Victoria Hawekotte
Justice Breyer’s retirement announcement provides relief to the Democratic Party, which feared that a delay in Justice Breyer’s retirement and a loss of its majority in the U.S. [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
I relied in part on an anecdote involving a visit by Justice Scalia to the University of Texas and and his clear lack of interest in what his friend and former colleague Doug Laycock planned to publish in the Supreme Court Review about his opinion in the “peyote case,” Smith v. [read post]
14 Jan 2022, 12:44 pm by Stephen Griffin
Abbott in Texas in which multiple appellate courts found that state legislatures acted with a racially discriminatory purpose. [read post]
26 Dec 2021, 1:23 am by Joe Mullin
Next came Texas, where Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill to stop social media companies that he said “silence conservative viewpoints and ideas. [read post]
15 Dec 2021, 11:50 am by Aaron Rubin and Heather Whitney
Our focus in this post is on what came next: Texas House Bill 20 (HB 20), which was enacted in September and which Texas Governor Abbott described as targeting “a dangerous movement by social media companies to silence conservative viewpoints and ideas. [read post]
26 Aug 2021, 9:03 pm by Jillian Moss
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order prohibiting state governmental entities along with private entities that receive public funding from mandating COVID-19 vaccinations or requiring vaccine passports. [read post]
13 Aug 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
But some fear the party is on track to make itself the face of the delta variant, endangering fellow Americans while also risking political damage in the long term. [read post]