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Impact Players — Pictures and Polls: Nina Perales

Texas Lawyer

Monday, December 17, 2012

Nina Perales, a longtime advocate for the rights of Latinos, helped stop a Texas voter-identification law from going into effect for the November election.

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Commentary: Rethink Campaign Contributions, Recusal

Texas Lawyer

Monday, December 10, 2012

Now that the election is over and lawyers' inboxes no longer brim with invitations to fundraisers, it may be time to look again at what happens after the campaign, when the money is banked and the winners don their robes.

Political Committees Can't Keep Stanford Companies' Donations

Texas Lawyer

Monday, October 29, 2012

Democrats' and Republicans' political committees should not be allowed to keep $1.6 million in donations from R. Allen Stanford and his companies. The ruling came in an Oct. 23 decision in Janvey v. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Inc., et al.

3rd Court Ponders Tom DeLay's Money Laundering Appeal

Texas Lawyer

Monday, October 15, 2012

On Oct. 10, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's attorney asked a 3rd Court of Appeals panel to stick to the court's previous finding that Texas' money laundering statute did not cover checks in 2002 when a political action committee sent corporate contributions to a Republican committee that gave money to GOP candidates.

Bar Seeks AG Opinion on Applicability of Its Election Rules

Texas Lawyer

Monday, October 15, 2012

The State Bar of Texas wants the Texas Office of the Attorney General to interpret the State Bar Act to determine whether a president-elect candidate nominated outside the Bar's regular process still must follow the Bar's election rules.

D.C. Federal Court Finds Texas Redistricting Plan Discriminatory

The National Law Journal

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

A special panel of three federal judges in Washington denied Texas' request for approval of its redistricting plan, finding in an August 28 ruling that the state failed to show that the proposed changes to voting districts "were not enacted with a discriminatory purpose."