PAID TO PROSECUTE: The Texas Tribune and Austin American-Statesman published an investigative report on Wednesday about the exclusive contractual relationship established in 2001 between the state’s leading worker’s compensation insurance provider and Travis County prosecutors. “[I]n exchange for guaranteed payments from Texas Mutual of more than $400,000 a year, the Travis County district attorney’s office prosecutes alleged ‘crimes committed against the company,’ according to their contract,” reports Jay Root and Tony Plohetski. The reporters’ write that their six-month-long investigation “reveals a series of troubling issues with the chummy partnership — including an absence of written procedural safeguards, a lack of awareness of terms and conditions in the contract authorizing the relationship, and what some say are inappropriate statements made on social media by the lead prosecutor of the unit.”
HOUSE STANDING: Prominent lawbloggers have been opining on U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer’s Wednesday decision recognizing the House of Representatives’ standing to sue the Administration over Affordable Care Act funding. “That’s clearly the right call,” writes Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute, while University of Michigan law professor Nicholas Bagley says he is “pretty confident that the court of appeals won’t let the judge’s decision stand.” Over on the Volokh Conspiracy, Case Western University law professor Jonathan Adler writes, “I’ve always been skeptical of the House’s standing claim in this suit, but I’ve also maintained that it has more substance than many have been willing to acknowledge.” Co-conspirator Eugene Kontorovich of Northwestern Law writes that so long as Collyer’s decision stands, Congress could take advantage of her reasoning to sue the President over the Iran deal.
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