Tag: Texas

“Not only will SB 4 lead to wholesale racial profiling, it is so vaguely written that local officials and law enforcement agencies are essentially left to guess whether their policies and practices would violate the law.”

Efforts to implement the nation’s strictest voter ID requirements – a solution in search of a problem, according to one critic – foundered amid court defeats, confusion and at least one giant oversight.

How folks in conservative states are responding – and have been responding for years – to infringements on their civil rights.

The threatened funding cuts would affect over 12,000 Medicaid patients across Texas.

The mosque has been the target of hatred before and was burglarized just a week ago.

The actions, along with arrests, will likely continue in the coming weeks and months.

Though some of the water use restriction have been lifted for some residents, two-thirds of those living in the Texas city are still forced to rely on bottled water for drinking and cooking.

After violating a court order intended to protect voters, Texas is ordered to submit all voting material for approval.

No one could have seen this one coming.

This significant legal victory was obtained not only in the chambers Supreme Court but through years of organizing at the grass-roots, in the media and in the halls of the Texas Legislature.