District Judge Francisco Dominguez rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to shut down the Annunciation House charity operations in El Paso. The state judge called Paxton’s actions unfairly harsh. Judge Dominguez questioned Paxton’s motivation in suing Annunciation House, a Catholic charity. It operates several shelters in the El Paso area that provide housing and […]
Image Credit: Trump White House Archived / Public Domain By Bethany Blankley [The Center Square contributor] – A U.S. District Court handed Texas a win in the first round of a case that consolidated two lawsuits filed against the Biden administration for halting border wall construction. In 2020 and 2021, Congress allocated roughly $1.4 billion […]
A total solar eclipse will happen on April 8. Two counties in Texas have issued a disaster declaration as officials prepare for the influx of people expected to come and observe the event. On Friday, Travis County (Austin) took what is described as a drastic measure in preparation for the crowds of stargazers coming to […]
Carlos Obed Yepez-Bedoya, age 40, was apprehended at the Texas-Mexico border by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last month. He is on the terror watchlist. On February 21, just days before former President Trump visited Eagle Pass and President Biden went to Brownsville, Yepez-Bedoya was caught by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) crossing […]
Image Credit: Canva By Bethany Blankley [The Center Square contributor] – As the Tennessee legislature considers funding the deployment of up to 5,000 National Guard soldiers to Texas over the next year, the soldiers would follow in the footsteps of historic Tennesseans who helped shape Texas and American history. Tennesseans arguably volunteered more than anyone […]
Greetings from Texas, which anchors today’s Super Tuesday results in the Central Time Zone! We have a spicy primary here in the Lone Star State, much of which will depend on who the lone star of Texas GOP politics will prove to be. Governor Greg Abbott has generated up primary challengers for the nearly two […]
Image: Six Mexican nationals who reportedly entered the country illegally were apprehended in Webb County, Texas Image Credit: Texas Department of Public Safety YouTube page By Bethany Blankley [The Center Square contributor] – Within hours of a federal appeals court decision Monday allowing a new Texas law to stand that makes illegal entry into the […]
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the new Texas immigration law. It’s the same law that the 5th Circuit of Appeals ruled on Saturday could go into effect while the legal battle continued. To recap, the new immigration law, Texas SB 4, was ruled unconstitutional by U.S. District Judge David Ezra last week. He also ruled […]
Image Credit: Office of Gov. Bill Lee The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Congressman David Kustoff and several members of the Tennessee Legislature met over the weekend with 50 Tennessee National Guard members who will soon be deployed to Texas as part of Operation Lone Star. The National Guard members […]
U.S. District Judge David Ezra ruled today that Texas Senate Bill 4 violates the U.S. Constitution and prior Supreme Court rulings that put the federal government in charge of immigration laws and restrictions. Senate Bill 4 was scheduled to go into effect on March 5. The new law would allow local law officers to arrest […]
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