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Employees of the San Antonio Independent School District are not required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment after the Texas Supreme Court intervened on Thursday. No employees can be fired for not receiving the vaccine, and in the event anyone is fired, the Texas Attorney General’s office says they should call the office and let the AG’s staff know. The Texas Supreme Court issued a temporary stay, halting enforcement of San Antonio ISD’s mandate requiring that all employees receive both COVID-19 doses by Friday (Oct. 15). “No local entity is above state law,” Attorney General Ken...

AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Supreme Court has voided a state district judge's temporary restraining order barring the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who have refused to return to the Legislature, putting in jeopardy the liberty of some Democrats who have returned to the state.

In the last few days I read, with interest, two items running on highly respected, national conservative blogs. First, Brandon Darby and Bob Price reported on Breitbart.com on the failed lawsuit of Joe Pool, Jr., against conservative incumbent Texas Supreme Court Justice Jeff Brown. The full story has a lot of good information in it, but the lede really says it all: Republican Joe Pool, Jr. is seeking election to the Texas Supreme Court; however, instead of campaigning, he went to the courts seeking to have his Republican opponent removed as a choice for Texas voters on the ballot. The...

Another "good for Texas." The national Episcopal Church loses bigtime with this decision. Maybe they will continue to throw money away in property disputes (a questionable Christian mission) and bankrupt themselves.

more info at http://donwillett.com

---Why a Texas Appellate Court Seriously Erred In Concluding that Texas Child Protective Services Should Not Have Rescued All of the Children at the FLDS CompoundBy MARCI HAMILTON ---- Thursday, May 29, 2008 Last week, the Third Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas, issued a very significant – and very seriously mistaken – ruling, In re Sara Steed et al.The case involved 38 women from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), who challenged the state’s removal of all the children from their FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas when authorities entered on the basis of reports...

Even though he didn't get a majority for re-election last year, Gov. Rick Perry's 39 percent was ahead of everybody else. And so he's now in a term that lasts into 2011. In the eyes of some of his detractors in the blogosphere, that's too long. Political activist Linda Curtis has started a website calling on legislators in 2009 to impeach the governor (www.impeachperry.indytexans.org/). That's a pretty rash idea. But since Texas doesn't allow for recall elections, like the one that nailed California Democratic Gov. Gray Davis in 2003, Texans' only way to toss Perry out before the 2010 election...

Democratic Texas Supreme Court nominee Bill Moody said Monday that a construction firm may be using political contributions to win favor from the state’s highest civil court in a potential eminent domain lawsuit about the Trans-Texas Corridor. “My opponent and other members of the Supreme Court have taken sizable contributions from the Zachry group, well-knowing there is going to be an eminent domain case,” Moody said during a Waco campaign visit with the Tribune-Herald editorial board. Moody cited contributions from Zachry Construction Corporation’s political action committee and executives to his opponent, Republican Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett, and four...

Texas school districts illegally tax property owners to pay for public education and the state must find a new way to fund schools by June 1 or classrooms will remain closed in the fall, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. Texas' highest civil court ruled that the property taxes for schools have become an unconstitutional statewide property tax and charged lawmakers with repairing the $30 billion funding system. State funding would be stopped if the deadline isn't met.

Justice Smith Responds to Perry Interference in Texas Supreme Court Race Austin, TX - Governor Perry formally endorsed Justice Paul Green today at a press conference held in San Antonio at the Bexar County Republican Party Headquarters at 1:45 p.m. I. In response, Texas Supreme Court Justice Steven Wayne Smith said: "I am not surprised that Governor Perry has endorsed my opponent. Perry's office recruited Green to run against me and Perry's associates have been openly running Green's campaign. "The Governor's endorsement is simply a case of 'sour grapes.' He remains upset that I defeated Xavier Rodriguez, Perry's appointee to...

AUSTIN -- Republican state Supreme Court candidate Steven Wayne Smith, who as a lawyer has fought affirmative action, says it has placed "underqualified" minorities in colleges. Smith suggested that even Texas Supreme Court Justice Xavier Rodriguez, whom Smith defeated in the GOP primary, and former Texas Attorney General Dan Morales might have been better off attending the University of Texas instead of Harvard. Smith said that when he attended UT law school, 34 of the 36 students who were on academic probation were minorities. "You create this artificial system where minorities are being admitted to schools where their credentials aren't...

Texas court to hear arguments against Baby Doe rules 04/01/2002 By LAURA BEIL / The Dallas Morning News Charla Land embraced her 7-month-old son for the first time on the day that he died. Zane Robert Land had spent his entire life in a hospital bed at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, tethered to machines that kept him alive. MONA REEDER / DMN "In the beginning, I had the philosophy that any life is better than no life," Charla Land said. "Then the realization hits you, and you think, 'Is he ever going to have a day when...