Political Roundup: Houston sues Texas
The City of Houston is suing the state of Texas over the so-called "Death Star law" – House Bill 2127, which would block cities and counties from r...
The City of Houston is suing the state of Texas over the so-called "Death Star law" – House Bill 2127, which would block cities and counties from regulating, well, all sorts of things, without approval from the state legislature. The new law is slated to take effect Sept. 1. In the audio above, we discuss the politics behind this conflict over state and local authority with Jeronimo Cortina , co-host of Party Politics and an associate professor of political science at the University of Houston, and Mark Jones , political science fellow at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.