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The Texas constitution would prohibit taxing a person or family’s net worth, including implementing a tax based on the difference between someone’s assents and their liabilities. For: 67.9% ...
We had to pass it, which is why I voted yes,” Landsman posted on X Friday. “However, the anti-trans language that was attached to it was mean and awful and should never have been included.”
Texas's location in the American South and largely in the greater Bible Belt has given the Republican Party the upper hand in the state in recent decades. [88] Trump received the most raw votes for a political candidate ever in Texas, breaking his own record from 2020 by over 500,000. The Democratic vote total fell by 425,000 between 2020 and 2024.
Former President Donald Trump visits the US-Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas, as seen from Piedras Negras, Mexico, on February 29. - Go Nakamura/Reuters
Van Orden v. Perry, 545 U.S. 677 (2005), is a United States Supreme Court case involving whether a display of the Ten Commandments on a monument given to the government at the Texas State Capitol in Austin violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
The 2024 Texas House of Representatives election was held on November 5, 2024. [1] The winners of this election will serve in the 89th Texas Legislature . It was held alongside numerous other federal, state, and local elections, including the 2024 U.S. presidential election and the 2024 Texas Senate election .
A post shared on X claims the state of Texas purportedly passed a bill banning Sharia Law in December 2024. Verdict: False There is no reference to the claim on Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ...
The Texas Legislature passed maps for the state House of Representatives in 1971, but it did not pass state Senate maps, forcing the Legislative Redistricting Board to convene for the first time to draw the chamber's maps. The map for the state Senate passed the scrutiny of the courts, but the map for the state House did not. [96]