A Texas judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss a felony abuse-of-power case against former Gov. Rick Perry on constitutional grounds, ruling that criminal charges against the possible 2016 presidential candidate should stand.
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Baylor football defeated SMU 45-0 in their opening game in its brand new home on the Brazos Sunday evening in front of more than 45,000 fans, students, and spectators.
Two Texans, one White House. Is the 2016 Republican campaign trail big enough?
Attorneys for indicted Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry formally asked a judge Monday to dismiss felony charges alleging that the possible 2016 presidential candidate abused his power with a veto last summer.
Top aides to Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday that it would be unwise for the next Texas governor to uproot lucrative taxpayer-footed business funds that are legacies of Perry’s 14 years in office but have become less popular among Republicans.
A Texas judge selected a second grand jury Monday in an investigation into whether Gov. Rick Perry abused his power by vetoing funding for public corruption prosecutors, and this time the Republican has retained a high-profile defense attorney to represent him.
News broke last week that Tesla, a California-based electric car company, had been banned from selling cars in several states due to lobbying pressure from existing car dealers. Though both sides in the debate are quick to claim they are fighting for a “free market,” there’s hypocrisy on both sides.
A federal judge decided Texas’ same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled in favor of two homosexual couples seeking marital recognition from the state of Texas.
The defendants in the case included Gov. Rick Perry and State Attorney General Greg Abbott.
Concealed carry laws: They’re all over the news.
Congress can’t come to consensus on the issue. Here’s the answer: Texas should secede. Then we will be free to make our own laws. It’s the only logical solution.
Women’s health has been the surprising topic of much debate in this year’s political climate. The latest development, a dispute between the state of Texas and the federal government over funding for the Women’s Health Program, has raised both eyebrows and projected levels of state spending for the next fiscal year.
Gov. Rick Perry defended a state-run fund designed to attract high-tech researchers, businesses and jobs to Texas, saying last Thursday that the government should play a role in enticing key research talent to the state — even if it makes some people nervous.
Officials at Big Bend National Park in West Texas are looking for a mountain lion that attacked and injured a 6-year-old boy as he walked with three other people.
Texas colleges must send illegal immigrants who pay in-state college tuition rates reminders that they promised to seek legal status in exchange.
Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race on Thursday, endorsed his old friend Newt Gingrich and returned home to Texas, where the failed White House candidate has three years left to serve as the chief executive.
All bets are off in this year’s GOP nomination because of the lack of viable candidates.
In yesterday’s issue of the Lariat, a columnist wrote that people ought to be more forgiving of Gov. Rick Perry’s mistake in the recent debate. He suggested the elimination of three U.S. government departments but could not remember the third, eventually admitting he forgot and saying, “Oops.”
We leave the house without putting on deodorant, take a shower and forget to use shampoo or, in my case, come dangerously close to putting handsoap on the toothbrush instead of toothpaste.
A judge has denied a Texas death row inmate’s request for testing of DNA evidence his attorneys say could prove his innocence less than a week before the man is set to be executed.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry proposed the federal government should extend work visas allowing illegal immigrants to move freely between the U.S. and their home countries — but stressed that he opposes amnesty or a path to citizenship.
Shouldn’t some of the Republican presidential nominees have dropped out by now?
A third former employee considered filing a workplace complaint against Herman Cain over what she deemed aggressive and unwanted behavior when she and Cain, now a Republican presidential candidate, worked together during the late 1990s, the woman told The Associated Press on Wednesday. She said the behavior included a private invitation to his corporate apartment.
One by one, five Republican candidates for president took the stage Tuesday in the state that holds the first presidential contest to pitch themselves as the strongest to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama on voters’ top issue: jobs.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said Wednesday that he has “no doubt” that President Barack Obama is an American citizen, staking out a definitive position on the matter after spending several days stoking widely debunked claims that the Democrat was born overseas.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday he opposes his state allowing specialty license plates featuring the Confederate flag — despite his past defense of the historical value of Confederacy symbols.
Watching Republican presidential candidates wax indignant over the federal government’s inability to enforce its own immigration laws makes one wonder. Which, if any, fundamental principles does the party faithful base its timid support for free markets and private property rights?
Republican presidential contenders attacked upstart Herman Cain’s economic plan as a tax increase waiting to happen Tuesday night, moving swiftly in a fiery campaign debate to blunt the former businessman’s unlikely rise in the race for the party’s nomination.
Presidential challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of failing to lead in a time of economic peril but sounded less conservative than his Republican rivals in their debate Tuesday night, defending the 2008-2009 Wall Street bailout and declaring he could work with “good” Democrats.
A few words about Rick Perry’s rock. This would be the one at the entrance to a remote Texas hunting ground used by Perry for decades, the one painted with the name of the camp: “Niggerhead.”
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is criticizing rival Rick Perry for what he calls “offensive” language in the name of a Texas hunting camp his family once leased.
I don’t know what’s different about the Lariat from my freshmen year, but this year I don’t go a day without picking up a copy of it. I find the stories to be varied and very interesting. Though I’m not a grad student, I also really love the grad-student comics as well as the political cartoons that come with the editorials.