Several Possibilities for Fixing How Judges Are Picked in TexasThomas R. Phillips
How are district court judges selected? Is the electoral process an oligarchy? How are the Electoral College votes allocated in most states? How does a constitutional republic work? In the United States, who elects the legislature? How does the presidential form of government differ from the par...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Republican power struggle in Texas that could push the state even further right come November isn't cooling down.
Texas A number of states, including Alabama, recently abolished the statutes allowing for common law marriage.3 Special Considerations As judges present the precedents which apply to a case, they can significantly influence the criteria that a jury uses to interpret a case. Historically, the traditi...
A legal separation is as serious as a divorce because both are orders of the court, containing duties and obligations that each party must legally uphold. If the couple later divorces, judges may consider the details of the separation agreement when ruling on a divorce. ...
"Sir, the bloody and untilled fields of the ten unreconstructed States, the unsheeted ghosts of the two thousand murdered negroes in Texas, cry [...] for the punishment of Andrew Johnson," wrote the abolitionist Republican Representative William D. Kelley from Pennsylvania. ...
Some states have their own district while New York, California and Texas each have four. Judges have to live in the district they serve -- the District of Columbia is the lone exception -- but a judge may temporarily sit in another district to help with a heavy case load. Magistrate ...
competitor after leaving employment. This new rule is one of the centrepiece items of President Biden’s economic agenda. It becomes effective 120 days after its formal publication and has been subject to a legal challenge by several plaintiffs in the US Eastern District of Texas district court....
The Senate confirmed 234 judges during Trump’s first term in office, a tally Democrats and the Biden White House are hoping to eclipse during the lame duck. Republican absences aided Democrats in their push earlier Wednesday. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) missed votes earlier in the day, while ...
And while the ruling does not explicitly apply to this year’s general election, counties will now have reason to accept undated and wrongly dated ballots, and at least some are likely to follow its reasoning. One of the dissenting judges, Matthew Wolf, wrote that the decision ...