Texas GOP Moves to Gerrymander State Courts After Democratic Judicial Wins truthout.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from truthout.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Texas Republicans are pushing legislation that advocates say will gerrymander the state s appeals courts after Democrats swept judicial races in districts serving Dallas, Houston and Austin.
The Texas Senate Jurisprudence Committee on Thursday advanced SB 11, a bill introduced by Republican committee chair Joan Huffman to redraw the boundaries of the state s court of appeals districts. The bill and its state House counterpart in their current form propose only minor tweaks to several districts but voting advocates warn they are shell bills that will soon be loaded with much bigger changes based on proposals from a powerful group to gerrymander court districts just months after Democratic judges swept appellate races in five of the state s 14 districts.
Proposed GOP Bail Legislation Would Put Harris County At Legal Risk, Texas Senators Hear – Houston Public Media houstonpublicmedia.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from houstonpublicmedia.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.