Author: Othniel

roses suggested I pass along to everyone here a Letter to the Editor I had published in this morning’s Austin American-Statesman concerning the recent filibuster compromise: Cornyn loses relevance One of the biggest losers...

An assault on the Right to Vote by requiring Voter identification was narrowly averted on the floor of the Texas Senate about 1:30 this morning when Democrats used a parliamentary maneuver and a threatened filibuster (Remember...

Many of you know by now that I am an Austin, Texas, lawyer focusing on constitutional law, and that I live in Austin with my 17 year old son who is a college freshman here.  Tomorrow (May 19, 2005), the Texas Senate...

Yesterday Judge Joseph F. Bataillon of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska, sitting in Lincoln, issued his opinion in Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning declaring the Nebraska Constitutional...

[From the diaries by susanhbu.] Harper’s May Issue (not available on-line) has an excellent story by Chris Hedges called “Feeling the Hate with the National Religious Broadcasters.” In it Hedges quotes Frank...