News reports (sfgate.com/news/us-world/…) and Texas Gov. Abbott (twitter.com/evanasmith/sta…) confirm Justice Antonin Scalia has died at age 79.
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No Matter What You Think About Abortion, The Activists Targeting Planned Parenthood Are Lying
When a Texas county opened the country’s first criminal investigation into Planned Parenthood — an investigation that was spurred by a series of undercover videos accusing the group of illegally trafficking aborted fetus parts — Devon Anderson probably wasn’t the prosecutor that abortion rights supporters would have chosen themselves.
Texas Governor Unveils Plan To Repeal The 20th Century
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ® proposed a series of constitutional amendments on Friday that wouldso fundamentally alter our founding document that it would be akin to throwing out the system of government established by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and replacing it with something entirely different. The amendments are a hodgepodge of efforts to restore constitutional interpretations that briefly gained traction beginning in the Gilded Age, proposals to implement longtime Republican fantasies, and ideas drawn from the fringes of talk radio and the legal academy. Though Abbott’s new constitution would maintain the federal government’s current division between executive, legislative and judicial branches, the powers of all three branches would be diminished so significantly that the new system of government would be barely recognizable to students of our current system.
Texas Governor Would Make Federal Anti-Lynching Laws Unconstitutional
Texas Lands In Court For Trying To Defund Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood, which has been plagued by controversy for months thanks to a deceptive video campaign accusing the organization of selling aborted fetal tissue, is fighting back in court.
The national women’s health organization announced on Monday that it has filed suit against Texas for attempting to kick it out of the state’s Medicaid program.
Cocks Not Glocks: University Of Texas Students Plan Provocative Protest Of New Campus Carry Law
Students at the University Of Texas at Austin are planning to protest a new law that permits the concealed carry of handguns on campus — with dildos.
Texas Mother Outraged Her Son’s Textbook Called Slaves ‘Workers’ And ‘Immigrants’
A Texas mother spoke out against part of McGraw-Hill’s textbook, “World Geography,” when she noticed that the language erased slavery by calling slaves “workers” and including them in the section “Patterns of Immigration.” One example of the text:
She didn’t just get mad. She got results.
Texas Jails Routinely Ignore Rules Designed To Protect Suicidal Inmates. The Consequences Have Been Deadly.
If a reporter asks John Gray to do an in-person interview, he insists that the backdrop is the same: The Brazoria County Jail, in Angleton, Texas, just south of Houston. It’s a dismal looking building — off-white and weather-worn — but Gray chooses this particular location because he says the story isn’t about him. It’s about his daughter Victoria, whom he believes the jail failed from start to finish.
BREAKING: Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Texas’s Voter ID Law
One day before the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, one of the most conservative federal appeals courts in the country wielded that law to strike down a Texas voter suppression law. A unanimous panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in an opinion written by a George W. Bush appointee, held that Texas’s voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act and must, at the very least, be significantly weakened. Though the court did not accept every argument raised against the state’s voter ID law, and its opinion does not go nearly as far as a trial judge’s decision which also struck down this law, it is a significant blow to the state’s efforts to make voting more difficult.
BREAKING: Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Texas’s Voter ID Law
One day before the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, one of the most conservative federal appeals courts in the country wielded that law to strike down a Texas voter suppression law. A unanimous panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in an opinion written by a George W. Bush appointee, held that Texas’s voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act and must, at the very least, be significantly weakened. Though the court did not accept every argument raised against the state’s voter ID law, and its opinion does not go nearly as far as a trial judge’s decision which also struck down this law, it is a significant blow to the state’s efforts to make voting more difficult.
Texas Police May Have Edited Dash Cam Footage Of Sandra Bland Arrest
One day after prosecutors confirmed Sandra Bland’s death will be treated as a murder investigation, officials from the Texas Department of Public Safety announced they are investigating alleged edits to dash cam footage of Bland’s traffic stop.