SMALL-TOWN POLITICS, NATIONAL CONSEQUENCES.

The article offers information on a political scandal in Castle Hills, Texas, involving the arrest of council members Sylvia Gonzalez and Lesley Wenger in an alleged plot to oust the city manager. Topics include the dismissal of charges against Gonzalez and Wenger, Gonzalez's subsequent lawsuit against city officials for retaliation, and the U.S. Supreme Court's consideration of how to prove unfair retaliatory arrest in small-town disputes.