The criminal case against Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal and Precinct 2 Commissioner Charlie Riley has just seen a major development with the revelation that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is getting involved on the side of the prosecution. Doyal and Riley...
Transparency in government is on trial again in a case which has come to have important state-wide implications concerning how elected officials operate and are accountable to the public. Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal’s trial for alleged criminal violation of...
In an audacious act of legislating from the bench, an activist judge has ruled that a statute in the Texas Open Meetings Act requiring transparency in government deliberations is unconstitutional. In gutting the Open Meetings Act, visiting Judge Randy Clapp also...
In an interesting turn of events for the criminal case against half of Montgomery County’s commissioners court, one of the defendants has made a deal with the prosecution to testify against the other indicted members of the court ahead of their upcoming trial. Three...
