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Paxton is seemingly already getting special treatment. Paxton was booked in Collin County, and Collin County has had a policy of putting this white towel on people while having their mugshot taken, obscuring whatever clothing the subject is wearing at the time. Everyone gets photographed with the towel, except Paxton apparently.
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# ? Aug 3, 2015 23:34 |
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The towel thing is a pro-defendant measure to reduce the likelihood of false ID or prejudice against defendants showing up to court in ratty clothes or an orange jumpsuit or whatever. There's no reason it would ever need to be required of a defendant who shows up in a suit, or who just doesn't want to put one on.
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 01:33 |
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VUGDWELLER posted:The towel thing is a pro-defendant measure to reduce the likelihood of false ID or prejudice against defendants showing up to court in ratty clothes or an orange jumpsuit or whatever. There's no reason it would ever need to be required of a defendant who shows up in a suit, or who just doesn't want to put one on. Well it was because of a judge's order: quote:Paxton’s booking picture took some in the Collin County Sheriff’s Office by surprise, said Lt. Chris Havey, a spokesman for the department. He said 396th District Court Judge George Gallagher of Tarrant County, who is presiding over the case, gave Collin County Sheriff Terry Box a verbal order to not use a towel for Paxton’s booking photo.
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 01:40 |
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Rick Perry's fall from eternal leader of Texas and presidential front runner to not even making the Republican debates is so incredibly satisfying. Goodbye forever Rick you fucker.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 12:36 |
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Observer has a good article about how state Republicans haven't circled the wagons around Paxton like they did Perry. And another article from Texas Lawyer about how even if he beats the charges Paxton could still lose his law license.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 16:00 |
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:Rick Perry's fall from eternal leader of Texas and presidential front runner to not even making the Republican debates is so incredibly satisfying. Goodbye forever Rick you fucker. I wonder if Evan Smith didn't shed a small tear over Perry not making the debate. Smith was so hopeful that Perry had a real shot (and thus Smith would get a lot higher profile for the interviews he's done with Perry) that he was kind of delusional about Perry's chances.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 20:29 |
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It seems that a lot of Texan republicans have issues with the law....perry, paxton, that dingbat from Sugarland.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 23:02 |
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Texas Voter ID law just got stuck down by a federal court. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/05/3688384/breaking-federal-appeals-court-strikes-down-texass-voter-id-law/ quote:One day before the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, one of the most conservative federal appeals courts in the country wielded that law to strike down a Texas voter suppression law. A unanimous panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in an opinion written by a George W. Bush appointee, held that Texas’s voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act and must, at the very least, be significantly weakened. Though the court did not accept every argument raised against the state’s voter ID law, and its opinion does not go nearly as far as a trial judge’s decision which also struck down this law, it is a significant blow to the state’s efforts to make voting more difficult. Slow News Day fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Aug 5, 2015 |
# ? Aug 5, 2015 23:08 |
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I will have a soft spot for Perry trying to play The Reasonable Conservative in the primaries.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 23:08 |
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Ken Paxton is in trouble...againquote:Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and a top state health official were ordered to appear before a federal judge in San Antonio next week to determine if they should be held in contempt for violating a court order prohibiting enforcement of the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. http://www.statesman.com/news/news/in-new-legal-woe-paxton-faces-contempt-of-court/nnDWN/
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 23:33 |
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zoux posted:Observer has a good article about how state Republicans haven't circled the wagons around Paxton like they did Perry. Just for context for those who may not know it, Collin County, where the indictment was issued, is one of the most conservative and wealthiest counties in Texas. Imagine the citizens of Highland Park or River Oaks returning an indictment against a rich person for being rich, that's how amazing this indictment is to me.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 23:34 |
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radical meme posted:Just for context for those who may not know it, Collin County, where the indictment was issued, is one of the most conservative and wealthiest counties in Texas. Imagine the citizens of Highland Park or River Oaks returning an indictment against a rich person for being rich, that's how amazing this indictment is to me. Rich people take securities fraud very seriously when it it exposed publicly or they lose money.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 23:37 |
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radical meme posted:Just for context for those who may not know it, Collin County, where the indictment was issued, is one of the most conservative and wealthiest counties in Texas. Imagine the citizens of Highland Park or River Oaks returning an indictment against a rich person for being rich, that's how amazing this indictment is to me. Not only that, they returned indictments for more serious crimes than the initial investgating body thought they could get.
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# ? Aug 5, 2015 23:53 |
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radical meme posted:Just for context for those who may not know it, Collin County, where the indictment was issued, is one of the most conservative and wealthiest counties in Texas. Imagine the citizens of Highland Park or River Oaks returning an indictment against a rich person for being rich, that's how amazing this indictment is to me. loving Collin County. I'm in the same congressional district as those fuckers. It's aggravating.
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# ? Aug 6, 2015 01:03 |
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:Rick Perry's fall from eternal leader of Texas and presidential front runner to not even making the Republican debates is so incredibly satisfying. Goodbye forever Rick you fucker. I'd be a lot happier if our new governor weren't either a literal crazy person or pandering to actual crazy people
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# ? Aug 6, 2015 05:29 |
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Texas Observer put out a great article on fair housing and the Inclusive Communities Project court case, I'd encourage everyone to read it: http://www.texasobserver.org/texas-lawsuits-affordable-fair-housing-inclusive-communities/
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# ? Aug 7, 2015 20:18 |
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VitalSigns posted:I'd be a lot happier if our new governor weren't either a literal crazy person or pandering to actual crazy people I don't think he's a literal crazy person. Now the Lt. Governor, he is a literal crazy person.
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# ? Aug 7, 2015 21:11 |
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Crazy like a fox.
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# ? Aug 7, 2015 21:21 |
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computer parts posted:I don't think he's a literal crazy person. He definitely was pandering to crazy people with all the Jade Helm poo poo.
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# ? Aug 7, 2015 21:30 |
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blackguy32 posted:He definitely was pandering to crazy people with all the Jade Helm poo poo. That's the point: it wasn't pandering. Dan Patrick absolutely believes that poo poo.
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radical meme posted:Just for context for those who may not know it, Collin County, where the indictment was issued, is one of the most conservative and wealthiest counties in Texas. Imagine the citizens of Highland Park or River Oaks returning an indictment against a rich person for being rich, that's how amazing this indictment is to me. Dont forget, its also the place where they spent 46 million dollars for a high school football stadium and three months after it was built, they found out it was built incorrectly.
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# ? Aug 8, 2015 15:42 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:That's the point: it wasn't pandering. Dan Patrick absolutely believes that poo poo. I'm talking about Greg Abbott
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 01:11 |
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When do we find out the results of the Paxton scandal?
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 01:52 |
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enraged_camel posted:When do we find out the results of the Paxton scandal? After the trial. There's going to be a trial. He can't plea bargain this away and still keep his law license so a trial is inevitable. vvvv: at least one year out if not more. radical meme fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Aug 9, 2015 |
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Sweet. Is there a set date for the trial at the moment, or is it still to be decided?
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 02:49 |
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If he looses his law license can he still be AG? Is that a stupid question? I'd think he'd have to resign.
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 03:57 |
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He can still be AG (unless criminal charges forced him to go to prison, I believe), though obviously pressure would be on him to resign.
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 04:27 |
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Just a wonderful reminder that East Texas is poo poo. Judge sentences East Texas man to get married or face jail time
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 19:10 |
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My Face When posted:Just a wonderful reminder that East Texas is poo poo. Can we give East Texas to Louisiana yet
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 22:24 |
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My Face When posted:Just a wonderful reminder that East Texas is poo poo. Also, to write Bible verses. And he can't call his job to explain his absence if he chooses jail. And I guess the woman's thoughts on the matter are irrelevant?
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 08:18 |
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PostNouveau posted:Also, to write Bible verses. Now that I think about it, couldn't the guy appeal and get the judgment thrown out? The judgment strikes me as brazenly stupid, even for a Texas judge.
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1stGear posted:Can we give East Texas to Louisiana yet No, cause Beaumont is east Texas and I have family there. They can have Vidor though cause gently caress Vidor.
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 09:34 |
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blackguy32 posted:No, cause Beaumont is east Texas and I have family there. They can have Vidor though cause gently caress Vidor. agreed This really does seem like it would never hold up on appeal. What basis did this judge even use for this?
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 10:48 |
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Dante Logos posted:Now that I think about it, couldn't the guy appeal and get the judgment thrown out? The judgment strikes me as brazenly stupid, even for a Texas judge. There is zero doubt it would get tossed on appeal. They should do it just on principle, even if takes months or years.
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 12:40 |
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Hey guys I know this happened a while back, but I just turned 26 and had to buy my own insurance. Were any reasonable arguments advanced by Perry and his team for rejecting the Medicaid expansion? Because it sucks.
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blue squares posted:Hey guys I know this happened a while back, but I just turned 26 and had to buy my own insurance. Were any reasonable arguments advanced by Perry and his team for rejecting the Medicaid expansion? Because it sucks. "gently caress you." -Rick Perry to 'blue squares'
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blue squares posted:Hey guys I know this happened a while back, but I just turned 26 and had to buy my own insurance. Were any reasonable arguments advanced by Perry and his team for rejecting the Medicaid expansion? Because it sucks. His argument essentially boiled down to, "gently caress Obama and gently caress Socialism!" It's up to you to decide whether or not those are good arguments.
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blackguy32 posted:No, cause Beaumont is east Texas and I have family there. They can have Vidor though cause gently caress Vidor. Too bad Louisiana already has a Vidor in the form of Vinton. Antifa Spacemarine fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:Too bad Louisiana already has a Vidor in the form of Vinton. At least Vinton is not a sundown town like Vidor is. Not sure if Vidor still is but I'm not stopping there to find out.
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# ? Aug 14, 2015 10:54 |
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blackguy32 posted:At least Vinton is not a sundown town like Vidor is. Not sure if Vidor still is but I'm not stopping there to find out. It is (unofficially).
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