Texans know very little about the Court of Criminal Appeals, but it must be reformed. The Court once ruled in favor of a man charged with drowning his wife because prosecutors neglected to say what she’d drowned in. The Court’s approach forgets that an individual crime is a violent eruption that shatters lives. Enough is enough; only criminals and inefficiency would suffer in the Court’s absence.
The Media and the Presidential Debate
The country awakened this morning following the worst debate performance by an incumbent president in television history to find that we are basically back in the same place we were before last Thursday night. Polls taken immediately following the debate show that almost 70 percent of the country say Trump won the debate, but most of the...