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They went to the dance as partners and Enterprise thought someone was prettier and left.

– Former Texas Congressman Kent Hance, on arguments before the Texas Supreme Court in Energy Transfer Partners v. Enterprise Products Partners. Hance penned an amicus brief on behalf of former Texas state legislator Jim Rudd, who oversaw several iterations of the Texas Business Organizations Code, which is key to the case.

This argument flies in the face of the plain text, structure and purpose of the law — the whole point of which is to remove the intelligence community’s political leadership from having a say over whistle-blower complaints. Indeed, it wouldn’t make much sense to allow intelligence community employees to blow the whistle on their superiors if the superiors get to take the whistle away.

– University of Texas law professor Stephen I. Vladeck on an Executive Branch refusal to forward a “credible” whistleblower complaint to Capitol Hill (The New York Times).

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