Recent News About Tppf
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LUBBOCK – An electrical equipment company, represented by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, has brought suit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission contending that Congress violated the Quorum Clause in allowing its members to vote by proxy, and not in person, on a spending bill which authorized the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act – one tenet of which is that employers must accommodate employees seeking an elective abortion.
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After two years, the extraordinary government measures—federal, state, and local—taken in response to the COVID pandemic, some of which were supposed to be temporary, have finally begun to abate, along with the fear and panic that inspired them.
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AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton, alongside the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) on behalf of Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne, sued the Biden Administration for its asserted illegal mask mandate for airlines and airports, a press release states.
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DC – Federal workers with naturally acquired immunity to COVID-19 have filed a class-action lawsuit against their employer, the U.S. government, as well as Dr. Anthony Fauci and other members of the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force, the group designated to act as the intermediate enforcer of the executive order mandating that all federal employees get vaccinated, a press release states.
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AUSTIN – Another line in the sand has been drawn, as the Texas Public Policy Foundation recently asked Attorney General Ken Paxton to affirm that the use of mandatory State Bar dues for political advocacy is unconstitutional.
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AUSTIN – For the past year, the pension woes of Houston and Dallas have made headlines. And while both cities acquired legislative patches this session, an expert who has been following the issue suspects the stitching may not hold.
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Complacent Texas taxpayers have become captives of their rent-seeking civil servants.
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The long-awaited decision from the Texas Supreme Court in the school finance case, Morath v. Texas Taxpayer and Student Fairness Coalition, was issued on May 13, 2016. (The case was argued over eight months earlier.) The court’s jargon-laden 100-page (!) decision can be summarized with this sentence: “Despite the imperfections of the current school funding regime, it meets minimum constitutional requirements.”
