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TexasTowelie

(111,277 posts)
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 01:07 AM Mar 2015

Texas GOP looks to cut influence of heavily Democratic Travis County's judges

AUSTIN — Texas Republicans are moving to stamp out Democratic challenges to their policies, particularly in the legal realm.

Some GOP leaders want to strip heavily Democratic Travis County of an anti-corruption unit that has pursued high-profile Republicans such as Tom DeLay and Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Gov. Greg Abbott and freshman Sen. Don Huffines of Dallas seek to rein in big-city local governments that they say are imposing “nanny state” rules.

And two GOP lawmakers have introduced measures that would deny Travis County judges their usual first crack at deciding multibillion-dollar lawsuits over school finance and politically fraught battles over redistricting.

The so-called three-judge panel bills would dilute Travis County judges’ influence, not just in fights over school funding and political maps but any major litigation affecting the state.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20150301-texas-gop-looks-to-cut-influence-of-heavily-democratic-travis-county-s-judges.ece

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Texas GOP looks to cut influence of heavily Democratic Travis County's judges (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2015 OP
Austin should just become its own country. Chipper Chat Mar 2015 #1
I read somewhere that they also split up local voting for city council and mayor Lodestar Mar 2015 #2

Chipper Chat

(9,634 posts)
1. Austin should just become its own country.
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 01:17 AM
Mar 2015

Let Texas republicans access the capitol building by a dick-shaped freeway corridor and stay the f*** out of the rest of the city.

Lodestar

(2,388 posts)
2. I read somewhere that they also split up local voting for city council and mayor
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 03:59 AM
Mar 2015

and as a result some GOP reps finally made it onto the council.

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