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Related: About this forumPublic Integrity Unit changes sent to Abbott
The Texas House and Senate gave final approval Saturday to legislation creating a special process to investigate and prosecute corruption by state officials, legislators and state employees.
House Bill 1690 would remove corruption cases from Travis Countys Public Integrity Unit, instead creating a special process with the Texas Rangers investigating allegations of corruption and home-county prosecutors deciding whether to pursue the cases.
Read about those changes in more detail here.
Republicans pressed to remove corruption cases from the Public Integrity Unit, saying they had lost faith that Democratic leaders of the Travis County district attorneys office could impartially handle cases against GOP officials.
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/public-integrity-unit-changes-sent-to-abbott/nmRb4/
They_Live
(3,222 posts)I knew you could.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Good luck with that.
ananda
(28,782 posts)Texas is SO screwy and screwed.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)Public Integrity Unit in Texas in the early 1980s, by the Election Division of the DOJ. (I made a post about this last year.)
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/10/07/house-democrats-call-doj-investigate-texas-ag-greg-abbotts-dirty-dealings-tef.html
Maybe the Congressional lawmakers can take another look into the investigations.
Javaman
(62,439 posts)will it have a retroactive effect on current cases? aka perry?