Constitution of Texas
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Sep 29, 2026
Beowulf RocklinHOST
The decision comes as a federal judge still has to rule on pending claims that the county intentionally discriminated against minority voters when it dismantled Precinct 3, a majority-minority district of black and Hispanic voters, as part of redistricting in 2021.
Beowulf RocklinHOST
Neither the Texas Constitution nor any statute authorizes the county to take the unusual and perhaps unprecedented step of choosing to conduct a general election using precinct lines that differ from those used in the corresponding primary election absent an overriding state or federal law obligating it to do so, the opinion stated.
Beowulf RocklinHOST
The state Supreme Court ordered the county to use in November the maps used during the March primary election.
Beowulf RocklinHOST
On October 27th, 2025, the United States Department of Agriculture announced that 42 million Americans would lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits.
Eric MarrHOST
One more nuance people seem to miss.
Eric MarrHOST
A hospital district is a specific kind of local government created under the Texas Constitution and state statute.
Eric MarrHOST
Plenty of rural hospitals aren't districts at all.
Eric MarrHOST
They're private, nonprofits, county owned, or system affiliated.
Steve LehtoHOST
So ABC 13 points to a 1980 Texas Supreme Court ruling, which was first highlighted by the Houston Chronicle, that addresses compensation for innocent third parties whose property was damaged during a government operation or action.
Steve LehtoHOST
The ruling states that innocent third parties are entitled under the Texas Constitution to compensation for their property.
Steve LehtoHOST
Compensation for their property.
Steve LehtoHOST
The mayor said his responsibility is to follow the law while treating people fairly.
Jody SandersHOST
And that's a judgment of the legislature.
Jody SandersHOST
That's a judgment of a lot of different things, the Texas Constitution.
Jody SandersHOST
So all of that to say, we just aren't built for this idea of constant conflict.
Jody SandersHOST
I mean, our bodies are not built for that.
Ryan McGeeGUEST
It was Blount College, and they didn't change it to University of Tennessee until this date.
Ryan McGeeGUEST
And we said in the Texas Constitution, and I'm like, no, no, no.
Ryan McGeeGUEST
When did the school open? And when did the other school open? And the first school opened 89 years before the second one did.
Ryan McGeeGUEST
And to me, that's a non-starter.
Gina HinojosaGUEST
And Texas public schools are part of who we are as a state.
Gina HinojosaGUEST
They are enshrined in our Texas Constitution.
Gina HinojosaGUEST
They are Friday night lights.
Gina HinojosaGUEST
They are the largest employer in our rural communities, in our rural counties, right? Yeah.
Michael Quinn SullivanHOST
Their proposal would have increased legislators' regular session pay from just under $31,000 to nearly $41,000.
Michael Quinn SullivanHOST
That's in addition to the $600 monthly salary set in the Texas Constitution.
Michael Quinn SullivanHOST
The measure would have also increased the amount of money that lobbyists could spend next year each day entertaining legislators without identifying the specific state official by name.
Michael Quinn SullivanHOST
Members of the Texas Ethics Commission are appointed by the governor, lieutenant governor, and house speaker, though all of the appointees must be made from lists provided by the two parties' caucuses in each chamber.
Erika LedfordGUEST
Now, one thing that I want to say is that public education is not a feel-good project for Texans.
Erika LedfordGUEST
Our public education is actually in our Texas Constitution.
Erika LedfordGUEST
So any money given to educate our state should be put in our public schools.
Egberto WilliesHOST
Now, interestingly, you talk about public education and being in the constitution.
Egberto WilliesHOST
need to specify that.
Egberto WilliesHOST
This is something constitutional.
Egberto WilliesHOST
Texas constitutional.
Egberto WilliesHOST
Yes.
Chance WeldonPANELIST
We also have apparently a random amount of people in Japan, I'm told.
Chance WeldonPANELIST
But I guess my question to nerd out just a little bit on that, you know, what are your sources if you, you know, if you come across the statute that was written, you know, or the Texas Constitution written in 1876 or a provision like that was written in the 1930s, like what are your sources? how do you go into deciphering and unpacking the ambiguities in that text? Like if there's a dispute about what a word means or what a sentence in a statute means, just kind of walk through that process.
Chance WeldonPANELIST
What are some of the sources you go to? Do you have a favorite old dictionary? That's the level of nerdery I'm talking about.
Laura Beth LatimerHOST
I think probably particularly with your constitutional questions that hit your desk, the Fourth and Fifth Amendment stuff.
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Consistent with the concerns over concentration of power, the US Constitution assigns the responsibility for elections to the states, not the federal government.
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The Texas Constitution devotes an entire article to suffrage, and this commitment is reinforced in the elections code.
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Although the state is charged with responsibility for elections, the Texas legislature has assigned most election duties to counties and their elected officials.
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It's a compliment to our election officials that the proper performance of these duties is automatically presumed.
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