Politics & Policy
April 8, 2015
The Senate’s Get Out of Jail Card for Politicians
The Senate today is set to consider a bill that could end all ethics prosecutions in Texas.
Texas Ethics Commission
Politics & Policy
July 22, 2014
The Skunk at the Garden Party
Michael Quinn Sullivan, the Texas Ethics Commission, and the federal courts.
Politics & Policy
December 4, 2013
The Life and Fines of Nathan Hecht
Nathan Hecht, the recently sworn-in Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, is a disgrace: a judge who ignores the spirit of the law.
Politics & Policy
March 31, 2010
Court Attack
How the Citizens United decision could spell doom for democracy in Texas.
Politics & Policy
January 23, 2010
Is Perry gearing up for an independent expenditure campaign?
The ink was hardly dry on the Supreme Court opinion before the Texas Ethics Commission gave its blessing to independent expenditure advertising: [I]t is our position that corporations are allowed to make all types of direct campaign expenditures (referred to in Citizens United as independent expenditures). A normal person would