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Federal court blocks Texas voter ID law
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. ruled Thursday (PDF) that a controversial voter ID law in Texas would disenfranchise poor people and blocked the state from implementing it, where the law’s likely to stay unless the Supreme Court overturns the decision. Attorneys for the Department of Justice argued…
Texas redistricting rejected under Voting Rights Act
A panel of U.S. judges has determined that election districts drawn up in Texas after the 2010 census are in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Bloomberg News is reporting that minorities’ ability to vote their interests has been strategically minimized under the current electoral map’s guidelines. The…
Texas man spreads gospel with his dog ‘the Prophet’
Old-timey ideas of how to worship God have officially gone to the dogs in a small town just north of Houston, Texas. According to MyFox Houston reporter Kristin Kane — the same reporter who scooped the “Pole Dancing for Jesus” ministry — a man in Spring, Texas is leaving throngs…
Republican judge in Texas warns of ‘civil war’ if Obama reelected
A Republican judge in Lubbock, Texas told a reporter on Tuesday that he and other officials are making plans for the possibility of “civil war” if President Barack Obama is reelected, warning that should the president cede control of the country to the United Nations, he’d prevent troops from entering…
Texas man gets 45 years for purse snatching
A judge in Austin, Texas sentenced a 37-year-old African American man to 45 years in prison on Thursday after a jury found him guilty of robbing an elderly woman’s purse last year at a Sears department store. In sentencing Willie James Sauls to 45 years on Thursday, State District Judge…
‘Mentally disabled’ man executed in Texas
WASHINGTON — Authorities in the southern US state of Texas executed an African American man on Tuesday despite protests from human rights groups that said he was mentally disabled. Marvin Wilson, 54, who was condemned to death for a killing a police informant in 1992, was declared dead by lethal…
Texas to execute mentally disabled prisoner on Tuesday
A death row prisoner who has been medically diagnosed as “mentally retarded” and therefore exempt from execution is set to die on Tuesday in Texas, a state that rejects scientific consensus and instead applies its own definition of learning difficulties based on a character in a John Steinbeck novel. Barring…
DOJ argues in court Texas Voter ID law could disenfranchise 1 in 10 voters
The US department of justice has defended its ban of a Texas voter ID law by telling a federal court that the legislation is an attempt by the state’s largely white Republican party to resist the political impact of changing racial demographics. A five-day hearing in Washington over whether the…
‘K2′ blamed after Texas man tries to eat dog in ‘zombie style’ attack
A 22-year-old man in Waco, Texas was arrested on Monday after a bizarre episode in which police claim he tried to eat his family’s dog in a “zombie style” attack. Michael Terron Daniel was charged with felony animal cruelty after an unnamed caller told police he was “going crazy” at…
Mississippi overtakes Texas, executes sixth inmate this year
Mississippi executed its sixth death row inmate this year, overtaking Texas as the US state that has put the most inmates to death so far in 2012, authorities said. Gary Carl Simmons, 49, was put to death by lethal injection at 6:16 pm (2316 GMT), prison officials said. Simmons was…
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