Expert Testimony To Continue At Voter ID Trial
More expert testimony is on tap in a trial to determine whether Texas' controversial voter ID law violates the federal Voting Rights Act.
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More expert testimony is on tap in a trial to determine whether Texas' controversial voter ID law violates the federal Voting Rights Act.
Conservative activist group Club for Growth has bought $1.5 million in television and radio ads attacking Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in his bid for the Senate.
Ted Cruz's campaign acknowledged that he missed a deadline to file his financial disclosure forms, but asked why Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst deleted past speeches from his website.
Mitt Romney told black voters at the NAACP meeting in Houston that he's a better choice than President Obama to help build their neighborhoods and lessen unemployment.
A Texas teenager said that she would be disenfranchised if the state's new voter ID law takes effect, because she does not have the right documents to comply with the law.
Speaking to the NAACP in Houston, Attorney General Eric Holder decried the state's controversial voter ID law as a modern equivalent to Jim Crow-era poll taxes.
Proposed cuts to the health care provided to Texas prisoners could make the system unconstitutionally inadequate, experts warned lawmakers Monday.
A trial looking at whether a recently passed Texas voter ID law violates the federal Voting Rights Act continues with Texas calling witnesses to support its case.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is scheduled to speak at the NAACP convention in Houston on Tuesday, as the organization launches a battle against voter ID laws.
Texas will not expand Medicaid or establish a health insurance exchange, two major tenets of the federal health reform that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld last month, Gov. Rick Perry said in a Monday morning announcement.
Before he was the U.S. Supreme Court chief justice who helped save "Obamacare," John Roberts was friends with U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz, who once called Roberts one of the "very best lawyers in the country." But he recently described the justice's controversial decision as "heartbreaking."
Although more than half the states are now exempt from the toughest requirements of the federal "No Child Left Behind" education law, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said his goal remains to help Congress fix the law, not to sidestep the stalled overhaul effort.
A North Texas congressman says you have a right not to be tracked while on the internet.
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus has called for an end to an accounting practice that masks how taxes and fees are really spent.
Governor Rick Perry said that Texas won't implement a state insurance exchange or expand Medicaid, two key elements of the federal health care overhaul.
