As Archie Bunker, in "All in the Family," used to affirm, "Nixon knows something I don't know." It was both a comical and a semi-logical way of standing behind the President's much-berated Vietnam policies.
Lawyers for a conservative advocacy group are worried the uproar over allegations of child abuse at a West Texas polygamous sect's compound could entice the courts to overstep their bounds and limit the rights of parents in the general public.
The internal fight among El Paso Democrats over the seating of delegates to the state convention, which was close to being settled this week, continues to linger, officials said Friday.
Child welfare officials were up against a culture of secrecy, unlimited resources and sect members well-schooled in the art of misleading authorities as they tried to build their case for removing hundreds of children from a West Texas polygamist enclave, religious experts and former adherents say.
The strain of handling the huge child custody case involving a polygamous sect in West Texas is trickling down through the ranks of Child Protective Services caseworkers who are pinching pennies while waiting for the state to repay them for overdue travel expenses.
Texas CPS Appeals to Keep Custody of Children Taken from Ranch
Child Protective Services should be allowed to retain custody of the youngsters seized from the West Texas polygamist ranch last month because returning them might lead to further abuse, the state agency said Friday in an emergency appeal to the Texas Supreme Court.
The 2010 Election Looks Interesting in Texas
While the political attention of many Texans is focused on the 2008 presidential election, and to a more involved few, the control of the Texas House of Representatives, there are some folks already looking ahead to 2010. That's the next time that most of Texas' non-judicial statewide offices are up for election.
Lawyers Cry Foul in FLDS Seizures
Many lawyers for children and parents in a Texas polygamist sect are boiling mad about the growing number of legal errors they claim the state has made in seizing and holding more than 460 children.
A bitterly divided State Board of Education voted Thursday on new English language arts and reading standards that infuriated teacher groups whose recommendations were cast aside.
by Michael Quinn Sullivan
Taxpayers were handed a much-deserved victory this week by Attorney General Gregg Abbott. What's that? You didn't read about it in the press? Big surprise, eh?
State Sen. Kyle Janek spent part of Tuesday working on a letter to Gov. Rick Perry formalizing the resignation he announced back in January.
Child Protective Services can keep in its care an infant born to a polygamist sect member this month, a judge ruled Tuesday.
The Texas Democratic Party has settled a federal lawsuit against the state, with Attorney General Greg Abbott agreeing not to target people who collect legitimate mail-in ballots as part of his voter-fraud campaign.
While Texas courts wrangled over the fate of more than 400 FLDS children, some worked on their reading skills - while others swooshed down a Slip 'n Slide.
Scott McClellan's critics in Washington have speculated about his motives for writing a book bashing President Bush, but back in the former White House spokesman's home state of Texas, some chalk it up to something very simple: his gene pool.
Children removed from a West Texas polygamist ranch could be heading home within days, after Texas' highest court ruled against the state in a massive child custody case Thursday.
A Texas judge has refused to sign an agreement ordering the return of polygamist children after attorneys for their parents objected to changes she sought.
A four-hour conference ended in mass confusion today (May 31) in a Texas courthouse where attorneys had gathered to work out a plan for getting the children of a polygamous sect out of state custody and back home.
As officials haggled Friday over how to return more than 400 children to their parents, it was becoming increasingly clear that Texas' audacious attempt to rein in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints had backfired -- and become a lesson in the difficulty of cracking down on the 10,000-member polygamist sect.
