If the U.S. Supreme Court agrees that the Texas primary election schedule doesn’t allow time for the Justice Department or a federal district court to preclear the state’s reapportionment plan, a roadmap around the Voting Rights Act will be written into case law. Other states will follow suit. The Texas redistricting fight argued on the […]

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She composed herself, told me to read Ross Sorkin’s article in the Times, and turned her attention to the two young women leading the general assembly. After watching this movement from up close for two days in October, as well as from afar, I find myself in agreement with the government regulator who feels compelled […]

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California Democrat Henry Waxman (the former subcommittee chair) complained that “Planned Parenthood is being singled out as part of a Republican vendetta against an organization that provides family planning and other medical services to low-income women and men.” In a letter also signed by Colorado Democrat Diana DeGette, Waxman reminded Stearns that the Health and […]

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Marching Orders Introduce a resolution supporting repeal of ObamaCare to send the repeal message to members of your state’s congressional delegation. Decline to enforce ObamaCare’s “consumer protections.” —from ALEC’s Repealing ObamaCare Adopt legislation prohibiting EPA by any means necessary from regulating Green House Gasses. States should pursue all available legal means for opposing EPA regulation… —from […]

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EXIT DELAY—On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Tom DeLay’s political career came full circle in an Austin courthouse five blocks south of the Capitol building where his career began in 1979. The former majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives was found guilty of money laundering and conspiracy to engage in money laundering. Executives from […]

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