The Latest Breaking News from Texas

"We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election," the Republican Party of Texas says, referring to President Biden as the "acting" leader.

The Texas Review of Law & Politics published my new article, Judicial Courage. Here is the abstract. What is judicial courage? Supreme Court Justices often accuse their colleagues of lacking fortitude, but they seldom explain what this concept means. This Essay provides a brief discourse about judicial courage. Part I…

A legislative committee investigating the deadly shooting at a Texas elementary school last month is set to hear more testimony from law enforcement officers

The theme of independence has recurred throughout the history of Texas, which was a republic from 1836–45. But the Civil War established that a state cannot secede.

Republicans say Texas “should reassert its status as an independent nation” and hold referendum in 2023

Republicans in the US’s second-largest state have formulated a political programme that’s extreme even by their party’s current standards

Texas governor’s plan has been criticised as expensive publicity stunt by Democrats

Transparency advocates say police could invoke a notorious loophole that allows them to hide records of deaths in custody and police killings.

Delegates at biennial convention also approve platform declaring that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected

An interesting new twist on the argument, which particularly focuses on how social media quasi-common-carrier regulations can fight governmental pressure on platforms to censor certain material; it reminded me of Ian Samuel's The New Writs of Assistance, which similarly argued that some Big Tech companies should be legally required to…

A new work of historical fiction, set for release June 23, explores a Texas freedmen’s school and raises questions of white authorship.