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Attorney General primary candidate George P. Bush, the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and the nephew of former President George W. Bush (R), was rejected by Republican voters in all but five of Texas’s 254 counties. On Tuesday, 68 percent of Republicans voted to re-elect Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has been a fierce opponent of illegal immigration and the monopolistic business practices of giant tech corporations. Bush received 32 percent of votes cast, losing to Paxton in all but five of Texas’s 254 counties. The only counties Bush won were Loving County, where fewer than...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is speaking out against the new hard-line immigration law in Arizona, becoming the first prominent national Republican to do so. "I think it creates unintended consequences," he said in a telephone interview with POLITICO Tuesday. "It's difficult for me to imagine how you're going to enforce this law. It places a significant burden on local law enforcement and you have civil liberties issues that are significant as well." The measure, signed into law last Friday, would require police to check the immigration status of any individuals they reasonably suspect are illegal immigrants and arrest them...

Talk about good timing. John Edwards's promotion to the national Democratic ticket is raising the profile of legal reform just as he and his Senate colleagues are facing a showdown this week on reining in class-action lawsuits. This is a debate worth watching, not least because the Senate is so close to a bipartisan breakthrough. The GOP has been rolling this stone up Capitol Hill since 1998, and the House has passed it no fewer than three times. But it has always rolled back down in the Senate, where Democrats and trial lawyers need only 40 votes to filibuster any...