That will make her nearly a year older than legendary Speaker Sam Rayburn, D-Texas, who died in office less than two months shy of his 80th birthday. ..…

District Judge Reed O’Connor in the Northern District of Texas — a George W. ... The suit in the case, Texas v. Azar, was brought by 20 Republican state officials, who have asked that all of Obamacare be thrown out as a consequence of the new tax law, which zeroed out a penalty on the..…

He later added, 'Wow, but not surprisingly, ObamaCare was just ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL by a highly respected judge in Texas. ... The Republican coalition, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, is arguing that the change rendered the mandate itself unconstitutional. ..…

District Judge Reed O'Connor in Northern District of Texas ruled that all of Obamacare should be thrown out known as the individual mandate, was set to be zeroed out in 2019 as result of Republican-backed tax law passed last year.. ..…

In 2018, seven men, were added to Texas death row, from Texas Coalition to Abolish Death Penalty. ... I had to get out of the state of Texas and into the federal court system to get help, Texas Tribune on Friday.. ..…

He was born and raised Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his degree from the University of Texas. He was attorney for twelve years Texas. He also was professor at University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. ..…

If you took this matrix of guidelines and put it in Texas, you’d probably get significantly more legislative districts that favored Republicans.” . ... While most of the attention in recent years when it comes to gerrymandering and voter suppression has been focused, justifiably so, on efforts..…

Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas State University, and an adjunct assistant professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin. . . . ..…

For their part, Democrats, who defended the law and its protections for people with preexisting medical problems lambasted Texas judge and portrayed themselves as champions of American health-care consumers.. ..…

WASHINGTON — federal judge Texas struck down Affordable Care Act on Friday on the grounds that its mandate requiring people to buy insurance is unconstitutional and the rest of the law cannot stand without it.. ... While Trump Administration has declined to defend the law, saying that it agrees..…

Supreme Court review became possible when a federal judge in Texas recently struck down the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) after concluding that its individual mandate is unconstitutional. ... District Judge Reed O’Connor, a Texas judge who was appointed by President George W. ..…

In Texas, state and local authorities last month launched a dramatic raid on the offices of the sprawling Houston-area archdiocese seeking information about a local priest linked to abuse allegations. . ... Shapiro said his office had been in contact with the Texas district attorney who..…

In Texas, we’re at around 60,000 kids not getting their vaccines. We are ripe for an outbreak,” says Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. ..…

Texas implemented similar reforms to its state prison system more than ago, saving more according to according to the justice reform advocacy group Right on Crime.. ... John Cornyn, R- Texas, changes to plan he crafted based on reforms passed by Texas more than ago, Tuesday,..…

District Court for Northern District of Texas, sided with Texas and the other states, saying the law cannot stand without the so-called individual mandate to get coverage. Texas and its partner states argued that the requirement was not severable from the rest of the law and..…