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Is Planned Parenthood Threatening State's Right of Free Speech?

If Texas has to allow Planned Parenthood to provide women with health services under the Women's Health Program, how can it also get across a pro-life message? Read More | Comment »

5:38PM Tue. May. 22, Jordan Smith

The Problem of Wrongful Conviction

A joint project of the University of Michigan and Northwestern law schools has created the country's largest database of exonerations, profiling online the stories of nearly 900 exonerees, and providing greater context to the problem of wrongful conviction in the U.S. Read More | Comment »

9:54AM Mon. May. 21, Jordan Smith

New Sentencing Hearing for Arena

A unanimous Texas Supreme Court ruled today that Michael Arena, sent to prison for an alleged sexual assault that even the victim says never happened – is entitled to a new sentencing hearing. Read More | Comment »

10:55AM Fri. May. 18, Jordan Smith

Majority Minority

Texas is one of five U.S. states with a majority minority population, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released this week. Read More | Comment »

8:29AM Fri. May. 18, Jordan Smith

Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?

It’s been 23 years since Carlos De Luna was executed by lethal injection for the 1983 attempted robbery and murder of Wanda Lopez at a Corpus Christi gas station; this week, a book-length law review article was released that meticulously deconstructs the case – and makes it almost undeniable that Texas has executed an innocent man. Read More | Comment »

12:33PM Tue. May. 15, Jordan Smith

Lawyers Like Hampton

A majority of Texas lawyers say they support Democratic Austin criminal defense attorney Keith Hampton in his bid to oust Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller at the polls this November. Read More | Comment »

4:10PM Fri. May. 11, Jordan Smith

Vote: Go Green

The Green Party of Texas (txgreens.org) this week released its slate of 56 statewide candidates in advance of its June 9-10 convention in San Antonio. Read More | Comment »

4:00PM Thu. May. 10, Monica Riese

FIfth Circuit Lifts Stay, Planned Parenthood Remains in WHP...For Now

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this afternoon lifted the stay imposed by Judge Jerry Smith, which would ban Planned Parenthood from participation in the Women's Health Program. Thus, the injunction granted Monday is now back in effect and blocks, for now, the state's plan to ditch PP from the program. Read More | Comment »

5:57PM Fri. May. 4, Jordan Smith

UT Regents Vote for Med School Plan

University of Texas regents today voted in favor of a plan to bring a medical school to Austin. Read More | Comment »

1:22PM Thu. May. 3, Jordan Smith

Report: WHP Planned Parenthood Ban Puts Patients in Jeopardy

Community health centers will have to expand significantly in order to compensate for the exclusion of Planned Parenthood clinics from the Women's Health Program, according to a new report released by the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy at George Washington University. Read More | Comment »

9:38AM Thu. May. 3, Jordan Smith

CCA Considers Hank Skinner's Death-Case DNA Appeal

Whether death row inmate Hank Skinner will be given access to DNA testing that could demonstrate he is not guilty of the 1993 killing of his girlfriend and her two sons is now in the hands of the Court of Criminal Appeals, which considered the case during oral argument this morning. Read More | Comment »

2:04PM Wed. May. 2, Jordan Smith

Scott Quitting Texas Education Agency

Normally the exit of a state agency appointee causes nary a flutter, but not so today. Commissioner of Education Robert Scott – possibly Texas' most widely-known and controversial agency boss – is resigning his post, effective July 2. Read More | Comment »

5:34PM Tue. May. 1, Richard Whittaker

Fifth Circuit Blocks WHP Ruling in Favor of Planned Parenthood

In a late-night ruling, a single judge of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Jerry Smith, issued an emergency stay of yesterday's ruling in federal district court that the state would not be allowed, at least for the time being, to exclude Planned Parenthood from participation in the Women's Health Program. Read More | Comment »

11:24AM Tue. May. 1, Jordan Smith

CCA: No New Trial For Jimenez

The Court of Criminal Appeals today denied the appeal of Rosa Jimenez, overturning lower court ruling that granted her a new trial in Travis County's infamous paper towel choking case. Read More | Comment »

3:18PM Wed. Apr. 25, Jordan Smith

Enough Providers for WHP Clients?

How exactly would a new Texas Women's Health Program continue to serve more than 100,000 clients without the help of the Planned Parenthood, the state's largest provider of WHP services? That's among the questions that a group of Texas House lawmakers is still trying to get answered. Read More | Comment »

4:39PM Tue. Apr. 24, Jordan Smith

Will State Be Allowed to Exclude PP From WHP?

Does banning Planned Parenthood from participation in the Women's Health Program actually further the goals of the program? Or is banning the veteran women's health provider an unconstitutional move, designed to punish the provider for its advocacy on behalf of reproductive choice? Read More | Comment »

5:12PM Thu. Apr. 19, Jordan Smith

Komen Comes Through

Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Austin Affiliate announced last week that it would award more than $1.4 million in grants this year to local organizations, including Planned Parenthood. Read More | Comment »

1:58PM Thu. Apr. 19, Jordan Smith

Legislators Rewarded for Animal Advocacy

The Sportsmen’s & Animal Owners’ Voting Alliance has named Longview GOP Rep. David Simpson a “legislative leader”for 2011, for his “outstanding leadership working with colleagues, animal owners, and sportsmen in a legislative session burdened with emotion,” Susan Wolf, president of the national group, wrote in a press statement. Read More | Comment »

12:24PM Thu. Apr. 19, Jordan Smith

Perry Back To Slash and Burn

After goon-squading his way through how Texas treats its young, its old, its weak, its infrastructure and its environment last session, Gov. Rick Perry is at it again. With an announcement this morning, the failed presidential candidate seemingly wants to stomp out what's left of services in that state. Read More | Comment »

2:01PM Mon. Apr. 16, Richard Whittaker

Santorum Out: Paul Says 'Newt Who?'

Cue a deep sigh of relief in the Mitt Romney camp: Rick Santorum today announced he is suspending his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination. So, of course, Congressman Ron Paul took the opportunity to remind everyone he still exists and hates Newt Gingrich Read More | Comment »

4:20PM Tue. Apr. 10, Richard Whittaker

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