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The state of Texas is courting a major backlash from the LGBT community for a proposal from some Republican lawmakers requiring transgender people to use bathrooms corresponding to their sex at birth. It is obviously a discriminatory proposal that is...

Brett Shipp of WFAA reports, Dallas police, fire pension board facing disaster: The past month has been an emotional roller coaster for Dallas police and firemen. Thursday afternoon, the bad news continued. The Dallas Police and Fire Pension System...

Random bill idea: I was looking up something unrelated in Chapter 59 in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure on all things asset forfeiture and noticed this odd restriction at 59.06(j): "the director of a state law enforcement agency may use not more...

A law that went into effect July 1 in Georgia allows students and employees to carry stun guns in buildings, dorms and classrooms at all public colleges, Janel Davis reports for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "The stun guns allowed under the law,...

U.S District Judge Reed O’Connor of Fort Worth, Texas issued a “nationwide preliminary injunction”, which states that “Federal officials didn’t follow proper procedures in creating the directives”, and that “the guidelines contradicted existing statutes...