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18 Nov 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Kelly said Trump’s demands were part of a broader pattern of him trying to use the Justice Department and his authority as president against people who had been critical of him. [read post]
11 Nov 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The charges included acting as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the attorney general, a charge the Justice Department has referred to as “espionage lite,” a violation of Section 951 of the U.S. criminal code. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Department of Justice, as well as a threatening email sent to the state elections director. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 2:37 pm by Michael Lowe
The 2021 Amendments to the Texas Alien Smuggling Statutes To that end, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law two amendments to the state alien smuggling statutes found in Texas Penal Code §20.05 and §20.06. [read post]
21 Oct 2022, 3:10 pm by Michael Lowe
On September 21, 2022, the Office of Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a press release with its accompanying Executive Order GA-42 and the news that, at least in the State of Texas, Mexican cartels are now considered to be “terrorist organizations” by state law enforcement. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 5:16 am by Eisha Jain
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) tweeted at the time: “We’re sending migrants to [Vice President Kamala Harris’s] backyard to call on the Biden Administration to do its job & secure the border. [read post]
27 Sep 2022, 12:13 pm by Michael Lowe
  However, there have been recent attempts to have one, including Governor Greg Abbott’s unsuccessful push for red flag legislation in 2019. [read post]
27 Sep 2022, 10:34 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
Perhaps picking up on the Constitution’s absence of any mention of undocumented children’s right to education, after a draft opinion in Dobbs was leaked, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that he would resurrect a challenge to Plyler due to the educational ex [read post]
20 Sep 2022, 4:04 am by Michael C. Dorf
A recent Washington Post story thus aptly compared Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to Belarusian dictator (and Putin ally) Alexander Lukashenko, who sought to weaponize migrants by deceiving them and sending them across the border to ostensibly more welcoming states but jeopardizing their health and safety in the process. [read post]
16 Sep 2022, 2:32 pm by Sage Rudolf
  Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) and Governor Greg Abbott (R-Texas) transported approximately 150 immigrants north to protest an unprecedented influx of undocumented immigrants at the border. [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Greg Abbott began offering free passage to the city with Arizona Gov. [read post]
8 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Governors Bill Lee of Tennessee, Greg Abbott of Texas, Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, and Ron DeSantis of Florida – Republicans seeking to limit abortion rights – each received contributions from at least one of the companies or associated PACs before the court’s decision. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 9:36 pm by Josh Blackman
Texas Governor Greg Abbot ordered the Texas national guard and state police to detain aliens who illegally entered the country, and to return them to the border. [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 7:24 am by JURIST Staff
  Due to the incident, Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott told reporters at a press conference Wednesday that the state will immediately start additional truck checkpoints to target trucks like the one found in San Antonio in order to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 6:07 am by Natalie L. Reid
These attacks come in addition to official efforts to block the work of U.N. experts on sanctions (Somalia, South Sudan); human rights (Israel, Myanmar); public health (China); and chemical weapons (Syria), as well as threats from now-Governor Greg Abbott of Texas, then the state attorney general, to arrest election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. [read post]
Congressman Beto O’Rourke, who is challenging Governor Greg Abbott for the governorship of Texas, interrupted a press conference by Abbott regarding the shooting, demanding action. [read post]
28 May 2022, 2:25 pm by Michael Ehline
There was a school shooting on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, Texas. [read post]