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Most Recent in Politics:

1Hooks: Dems are Missing Their Chance to Give Obama His Transformational Legacy

2Loon Star State: Unemployment Benefits

3Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

4Texas Association of Business Comes Out Against Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’

5Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

6The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

Most Recent in Environment:

1Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

2Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

3Feeling the Burn in Big Bend

4Outgoing State Rep. Jim Keffer on Trump, Climate Change and Being a Tea Party Target

5The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

6Climate Science ‘Skeptic’ Lamar Smith Claims to Aid Scientists in Latest Crusade

Most Recent in Border:

1Eddie Canales on Saving Migrant Lives in Brooks County

2Report: Mexico’s Border Crackdown Sends Migrants into Dangerous Territory

3Hundreds Gather to Remember the 1966 Texas Farmworkers’ March

4In Texas, Trump Signals a Plan for Victory in Defeat

5Trump Takes Texas, in Photos

6Texas Relents on Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Immigrants

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

2Texas Judge Dismisses Trans Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeking Gender Confirmation Surgery

3Citing Observer Report, Senators Vow Stronger Protection for Texans Under Guardianship

4Texas Activists Protest Modern-Day ‘Slavery’ in Prisons

5How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

Most Recent in Education:

1Hostile Takeover

2Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

3First School District Set to Join Parents’ Lawsuit Over STAAR

4Dallas ISD Considers Ending Suspensions for Young Students

5Hundreds Rally to Reject ‘Racist’ Mexican-American History Text

6How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

Most Recent in Health Care:

1The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

2The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

3Op-Ed: Abortion Access and Trans Health Care Are Bound Together in Texas

4Crisis Pregnancy Center Among Texas Repro Health Contractors

5Oil and Gas Smog Projected to Cause 140,000 Asthma Attacks in Kids

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

2The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

3The Interview: Frank Jackson

4The Interview: Cecile Richards

5The Interview: Anthony Graves

6The Interview: Elliott Naishtat

Most Recent in Books:

1All the Wrong Moves

2In ‘Houston on the Move,’ the Bayou City Wakes Up

3Good as Gone Treats Women Mysteriously Like People

4Meet the Texas Scholar Who Unearthed Walt Whitman’s 19th Century Clickbait

5Send Us Your Stories, Writers

6Hiking the Keystone XL Pipeline and Hoping for Dialogue

Most Recent in Postcards:

2Feathering Their Nest

3The Business of Burying Horses

4Fragile Species

5Rotten Apples in Donna ISD

6Holding Back the Flood

Most Recent in Essay:

1How Ali Inspired a Generation of Chicano Activists

2David Bowie in Aztlán

3The 66 Percent: Erasing Mexican Americans in the United States

4The New Migrants

5How the 1% Gardens

6Our Blue Period

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

2Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

3Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

4Eye on Texas: Portico Tejas

5Eye on Texas: Xiomara, a Domestic Worker Who’s ‘Invisible in Austin’

6Eye on Texas: Uncertain, Texas

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

2Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’

3Poem: ‘I Could Have a Thousand Husbands’

4Poem: Aleppo Oslo Jos Boston

5Poem: ‘Poets And Antidepressants’

6Poem: ‘While I Was Trying to Avoid Falling in Love’

Tag Archives: U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals

Texas' voter ID law is a solution in search of a problem. But what's voting really got to do with this whole democracy thing, anyway?

by Andrea Grimes

Texas Lawmakers Aren’t Actually Supposed to Try to Make Things Worse, Right?

The state excels at creating solutions in search of problems, making life more difficult for the most marginalized Texans.

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Fri, Oct 30, 2015 |

To me, it looks as though the problem the state has is with some Texans. Texans who aren’t wealthy white folks, or who aren’t likely to be turning up to vot...Read More

Cleopatra DeLeon and Nicole Dimetman, are one of the two plaintiff couples in the Texas marriage case.

Texas Will Have Gay Marriage Before Easter, Attorney For Same-Sex Couples Predicts

Mon, Jan 5, 2015 |

Same-sex marriage will arrive in Texas before Easter, according to an attorney for two couples who are challenging the state’s marriage bans in federal court....Read More

Attorney General Greg Abbott

by Forrest Wilder

A Closer Look at Greg Abbott’s Arguments For Same-Sex Marriage Ban

Wed, Jul 30, 2014 |

Greg Abbott is arguing to the Fifth Circuit that Texas' ban on same-sex marriage should be upheld to encourage straight couples to procreate....Read More

U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes

by Forrest Wilder

Federal Judge Still Overseeing Discrimination Case After Bizarre Race Remarks

Mon, Sep 23, 2013 |

A federal judge in Houston who made bizarre remarks during a hearing on a racial discrimination case he's overseeing will not step down after the 5th Circuit sa...Read More

Could the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court Turn Blue?

by Emily DePrang

Leave a comment | Thu, Jan 31, 2013

It is mathematically possible for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to go from two-to-one Republican-appointed judges to four-to-one Democrat-appointed by 2016....Read More

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