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ADVERTISEMENT 5th Circ. Says Mandatory Bar Fees Violate Attys' Free Speech Law360 (July 2, 2021, 11:16 PM EDT) -- The Fifth Circuit held Friday that state bar associations can't require lawyers to join and pay dues to practice in the state if those fees then fund "non-germane" activities such as lobbying for LGBTQ rights, siding with a trio of Texas attorneys who'd challenged the Lone Star state's mandatory bar.  The Fifth Circuit ruled Friday in two cases concerning whether mandatory bar membership and dues violate attorneys' First Amendment rights.  (iStock.com/Rex_Wholster) Texas attorne...

The State Bar of Texas engages in political activities that fall outside the scope of its interests so it cannot force attorneys to join it and pay mandatory dues, the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday. A man walks in front of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Jan. 7, 2015. (AP photo/Jonathan Bachman) (CN) — Three Texas attorneys filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the president of the State Bar and its board members in March 2019, claiming it had overstepped its core regulatory functions by helping undocumented immigrants affected by then-President Donald Trump’...

In many cases, the changes generally do not bode well for Republicans.

shutterstock.com Late conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly published her first book, A Choice Not an Echo, in 1964 in hopes of breaking the stranglehold of country club Republicans on the grand old party’s presidential nominating process. Every four years, it seemed even then, the party faithful were presented with a somewhat less offensive version of the opposition’s choice, i.e., Democrat Lite. Thanks in part to the enthusiasm generated by her book, Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona went on to secure the Republican nomination but lost in a landslide to Texas Demo...

Growing populations are giving two additional seats in Congress to Texas and one to Florida. New York and California are each losing a seat, not because their h