The arrest of two city council members in a small #Texas town set off a firestorm of legal controversy that's reaching all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. From Correspondent Jason Buch, in our magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/small-town-politics-national-consequences/

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Did a Tiny Texas Town Misuse Arrests to Silence Critics?

A power struggle in the suburban enclave of Castle Hills got so bad that the Supreme Court is being asked to clarify the definition of retaliatory arrests.

^{Jason Buch (The Texas Observer)}