Tag: Texas
SB 4 lawsuit: Texas immigration law violates U.S. constitution
“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.”
Texas voter ID law led to fears and failures in 2016...
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.
What reproductive rights advocates can learn from Texas (yes, Texas)
How folks in conservative states are responding – and have been responding for years – to infringements on their civil rights.
Judge blocks Texas from cutting Planned Parenthood
The threatened funding cuts would affect over 12,000 Medicaid patients across Texas.
Just hours after Trump signs Muslim ban a Texas mosque went...
The mosque has been the target of hatred before and was burglarized just a week ago.
Fighting the Black Snake at Two Rivers: How Standing Rock-style protest...
The actions, along with arrests, will likely continue in the coming weeks and months.
The next Flint? Two-thirds of residents in Corpus Christi, TX still...
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.
Texas on Short Leash After Defying Court’s Voting Rights Order
After violating a court order intended to protect voters, Texas is ordered to submit all voting material for approval.
DOJ Catches Texas Violating The Court Order Against Its Voter Suppression...
No one could have seen this one coming.
The U.S. Supreme Court Makes Herstory
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.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.