All posts tagged "State of Texas"

Former Aide to the Austin Mayor’s Punishment for Being On the Take? A Letter from the Austin Ethics Commission

Records show Rodriguez received $17,235 in 2015 and $19,875 in 2016 in consulting payments from the Latino HealthCare Forum. He resigned from...

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For God’s Sake Man, We Won’t Defend Our Texas Ethics Commission as a Texas Attorney General Should Sayeth the Paxtons as they Received nearly $1,000,000 in Campaign Donations from Empower Texans

Paxton, who was first elected in 2014, has received a total of $782,000 from Empower Texans and Dunn. Empower Texans has also...

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The Televangelism of Ken Paxton is a Great Article about How the Shy Church-Going Texas Attorney General Stepped Into Politics with Pistol Packin Mamma (Angel-a Paxton) and Silenced the Conversation about his Fraud Indictment

If the attorney general’s office were a private law firm, it would be among the largest in Texas, with more than seven hundred lawyers,...

Calling their Bluff, Texas’s Top Criminal Court Denies Attorney Fee Request by Prosecutors Pursuing Ken Paxton’s Criminal Case as they Threatened to Walk if Not Paid Going Rates

We’re disappointed that the Court took six months to summarily deny our motion for rehearing without addressing any of the substantial legal...

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In Anticipation of the Great Recession II in 2020, Here’s 47 Interesting Facts About the Great Depression of the 1930s along with Donald Trump’s Views on the Current State of Affairs

“We are led by very, very stupid people. Very, very stupid people.” Donald J. Trump on the 2016 Campaign Trail.

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Texas Legislators: Scoundrels and Cockroaches, and that’s Just What Texas Monthly Says…

Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick missed the opening day of the 86th Legislature to be with President Donald Trump before the president’s primetime...

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Everyone Loves Ken and Barbie Dolls. Texas Lawmakers and Politicians Feel the Same Way About Ken and Angela Paxton. The Texas Attorney General has Yet to Face his Criminal Charges and that’s Unlikely Until at Least 2020

Several members on the Commissioners Court have been involved in fundraisers for Attorney General Paxton at one point or another, Zelinski says.To...

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How Texas Lawmakers Patched Open Government Laws But Kept Government Agencies Immune from Open Record Requests

HB 4181 would also transfer much of the authority of legislative records from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission to the...

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How a House Bill Becomes Law in the State of Texas

The Texas Constitution divides state government into three separate but equal branches: the executive branch, headed by the governor; the judicial branch,...

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Commissioners Obtain Answer to AG opinion for $250k Fees Billed by Pro Tem Prosecutor

Between May 2017 and August 2018, Shearin submitted bills to the county amounting to $265,769, according to statements obtained by the Wood...

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It’s a Yes for a $500 Sanction for a Public Defender Held for Violating Local Court Rules and a No for it Being Held in Contempt

Although conduct unbecoming a member of the bar is not defined in the Local Rules, the Supreme Court has interpreted the same...

The US Supreme Court Takes On the Fifth Circuit’s Stiff Sentencing

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected Holguin’s argument that the consecutive year term was substantively unreasonable. Holguin failed...

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The Fifth Circuit Removes Rogue Attorney O’Dwyer from Practicing at the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

To take just one example of serious misconduct, there was strong support for the finding that O’Dwyer engaged in the unauthorized practice...