documents and interviews with The Texas Tribune, they say a persistent staffing shortage leaves lock-ups without enough guards needed to mitigate against the heat inside un-air conditioned prisons, which reach well over 100 degrees during
The Phelan defenders, reported the Texas Tribune, included such bold-faced GOP names as one-time kingmaker Karl Rove, Clarence Thomas benefactor Harlan Crow, former governor Rick Perry, and former senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, as well as Phelan’s predecessors in the Speaker’s chair, Dennis ...