Today in Campaign Fail

Rick Perry takes a YouTube tumble

"...supposed to be about Gov. Rick Perry versus the Tenth Amendment. Instead, it's become Perry versus copyright law –..."

Oct. 28, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

An Arbitrary Nation, Part 6

The Ninth and Tenth are the invisible Bill of Rights amendments – universally ignored

"...are both or neither, we come to the fun amendments, the Ninth and Tenth – fun, I say, because,..."

July 26, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

The Common Law

The stay at home order vs. the right to assembly (protest) and free speech

"...and safety. The State police power comes from the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gives states the..."

June 5, 2020 Column by Luke Ellis

Doggett: Keep School Funds in Schools

Perry demands right to gut Texas education funding

"...It all comes down to an amendment added today by the U.S. Senate to House Resolution..."

Aug. 5, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Greg Abbott, Founding Father

Texas governor wants to rewrite U.S. Constitution

"...rights for everybody. Yes, seemingly the efficacy of the Tenth Amendment is over-rated, and Abbott has a nine-point plan..."

Jan. 11, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Perry: A&M Shootings Not About Gun Control

Governor goes fishing and returns with poorly timed comments

"...centralize the decision-making." Y'see, he's now got his Second Amendment caught up in his Tenth Amendment. As Think Progress..."

Aug. 17, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Perry Continues Assault on Women's Health Care

Perry ends the WHP and blames it on the feds

"...To do otherwise, he wrote, would offend Texas' 10th Amendment sovereignty. As Perry sees it, the U.S. Constitution grants..."

March 16, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Reefer Roundup: 10/30/11

Your drug war news

"...– arguing that the state scheme violates the Fourth Amendment's ban on unlawful search and seizure. Last week federal..."

Oct. 30, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

New Medicare Plan Infringes on Sovereignty, States Say

Attorney General Abbott leads states' legal charge

"...the constitutional guarantee of sovereignty granted under the 10th Amendment, Abbott argues on behalf of the handful of state..."

March 10, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

LegeLines

UT Regents, education, gun control, and more

"...Gail Lowe, who followed the similarly rejected Don McLeroy. Tenth Amendment in One Hand, AK in the Other..."

Feb. 22, 2013 News Column

Legeland Gets Comfy on the Fox 7 Couch

An early morning conversation with the Texas Public Policy Foundation

"...women's health program (which Wohlgemuth claimed is really a Tenth Amendment issue). Let's say there were some differences of..."

Jan. 30, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Perry's Magic Wand

The governor's cynical assault on Planned Parenthood is illegal and dishonest

"...overreach and defend life, our state's laws and the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution" – that is, those..."

March 16, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Perry Versus School Boards

Governor punts blame for teacher layoffs

"...Concurrent Resolution 50, a slab of histrionic and history-rewriting Tenth Amendment dogma, when the issue of public education (and..."

March 9, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Sunday Survey: 8/8/10

Are we having Fun Fun Fun yet?

"...to education. Of course, Perry is now waving the Tenth Amendment around because, well, it's election season...."

Aug. 8, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

16 Billion Reasons Not to Read Perry's Book

Governor gets polemical about Tenth Amendment

"...foreign policy game, Perry is doubling down on the Tenth Amendment vote for the general election race against Democrat..."

May 26, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Politics of Debating

What Medina's GOP debate inclusion and exclusion means for White and Shami

"...White still tried a little political jujitsu on Perry's Tenth Amendment-boosting anti-Washington interference proclivities when he said, "Under Governor..."

Jan. 17, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Check Your Scopes

"Clean Austin" says Liveable City report supports Prop. 1; Liveable City says 'um ... no it doesn't.'

"...most contentious finding: that the city could "spend a tenth of that [$36 million] to achieve nearly all of..."

May 5, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Daily Hustle: 3/29/10

A Hustle a day keeps the haters away

"...transportation, but they just felt like they had an amendment about environmental protection and somehow it does relate to..."

March 29, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

Are Texas doctors doing harm to truth and justice?

"...people (including patients) to vote for Proposition 12, the amendment is guaranteed victory...."

Sept. 12, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Postmarks

My Vote, My Message

"...on individual welfare, which amounts to less than one tenth of the amount which corporations are given. It is..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Column

Texas’ Maternal Mortality Committee Loses Advocate, Adds Anti-Abortion Doctor

As committee expands, former advocate role is eliminated

"...the Texas Women’s Health Caucus, points out that the amendment that removed the word “advocate” happened quietly...."

May 22, 2024 News Post by Maggie Quinlan

Austin at Large: We Knew This Was Trouble

Institutional Democrats fail their parenting tests at the dawn of the Dobbs era

"...so I don't know how this went in Texas. Tenth grade was when kids carried around raw eggs, or..."

July 1, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Next Target: Springdale

Eastside activists target another urban farm

"...to terminate the restrictive covenant, but rejected the FLUM amendment...."

Nov. 14, 2014 News Feature by Anna Toon

Naked City

"...in response to last year's defeated Open Government Online amendment, in 2008 the city plans on redesigning the Austin..."

Jan. 4, 2008 News Feature

Collision Course

Competing Visions

"...legislation that will in large part fund SH130. Doggett's amendment was stripped out by U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm...."

June 11, 1999 News Feature by Bryan Mealer