Several Possibilities for Fixing How Judges Are Picked in TexasThomas R. Phillips
The latest battle between Texas and Washington concerns a new law Gov. Abbott signed authorizing Texas' more than 2,700law enforcement agenciesto arrest migrants for illegally crossing the border. Texas judges could then order migrants to return to Mexico or serve time-- bypassing the federal immi...
Trump’s own administration have been critical of federal judges who have ruled against the White House in lawsuits brought over his sweeping executive orders. Some of his allies have called out judges by name on social media and suggested they should be impeached. Advertisement Trump loyalists ch...
The confusion along Texas' vast border during that brief window revealed that many sheriffs were unprepared, unable or uninterested inenforcing SB4in the first place. For months, Texas has made urgent appeals to judges that the state cannot afford to wait for toug...
Republican legislators wrote the law so that it applies in all of the state’s 254 counties, although Steve McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, has said he expects it will mostly be enforced near the border. ...
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many Floridians were without power or outside the state after evacuating. A federal court rejected that challenge, and the plaintiffs have not yet appealed. But with six more weeks left in hurricane season and repairs continuing throughout the South, the possibility of additional litigation remains...
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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....