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.
Sanctuary Stubbornness
Governor Greg Abbott’s push to hold Texas cities accountable for sanctuary policies protects Texans and the rule of law in a state grappling with the consequences of a broken federal immigration system. At the center of this debate is Senate Bill 4 (SB 4), the 2017 law designed to ensure that local governments do not...