Mason said she didn't know she was ineligible to vote when she cast a provisional ballot in 2016, but she was sentenced to five years. Now, the Court of Criminal Appeals says an appellate court that affirmed her conviction must look again at the evidence of Mason's intent. read more
Benjamin Wittes: It is no exaggeration to say that the history of the United States has never seen an account of a president's conduct quite so devastating as the first nine pages of Judge David Carter's opinion of March 28 in Eastman v. Thompson. The opinion, legally speaking, concerns the Jan. 6 Committee's efforts to secure emails from John Eastman, the law professor who provided President Trump with advice aimed at overturning the 2020 election. But that is not why it will be remembered. read more
Despite widespread claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent or poorly managed, election administration did not just persevere under unexpected and challenging conditions"it improved.
States that mailed a ballot to every registered voter in 2020's presidential election saw voter turnout increase by an average of 5.6 percent, and turnout was even higher among infrequent voters, according to the first peer-reviewed academic study of 2020 mail voting.
"The American Revolution"what was revolutionary about it was it had this audacious idea that rights were from God, not from a government," he said from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) main stage in Orlando. "The founders of this nation understood that human nature was, if they ever got power, there would always be people that would want to make everybody else live, think, say the things they wanted them to say, and do the things they wanted them to do. And they built protections against it. Because none of us are immune from it."
The opinion turns on her knowledge that she was ineligible. The Court rejected two HAVA safe haven arguments.
The opinion is relatively short at 25 pages. The concurring and dissenting opinions can be found here: search.txcourts.gov
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The state constitution would have to be amended to end public schools. statutes.capitol.texas.gov
But soon after the press conference, Abbott's office released more details about the plan that struck a notably softer tone.www.texastribune.org
The governor's office clarified that the program is completely voluntary for migrants and would happen only after they had been processed and released by the Department of Homeland Security.
We took a look at the significance of the 123 rigorous empirical studies and what they actually say about the efficacy of gun control laws.reason.com
The answer: nothing. The 123 studies that met RAND's criteria may have been the best of the 27,900 that were analyzed, but they still had serious statistical defects, such as a lack of controls, too many parameters or hypotheses for the data, undisclosed data, erroneous data, misspecified models, and other problems.
I mean laws like the one that that a Federal Court, relying heavily on the Heller decision, just overturned in California this past week that had it been in place nationwide would have stopped this shooter from legally purchasing the rifle.
You mean the one that would have allowed the purchase if he had a hunting license? reason.com
BTW, this was not a merits decision so the law was not overturned. The panel opinion dealt with denial of a preliminary injunction but we'll have to wait see what the en banc court does. CA gun laws have faired quite well before the en banc Ninth Circuit.