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16 May 2024, 2:05 pm
Texas Governor Greg Abbott pardoned former US Army Sergeant Daniel Perry on Thursday after the Texas Parole Board unanimously recommended a pardon for the ex-soldier who was convicted of killing armed protester Garrett Foster at an Austin Black Lives Matter demonstration in 2020. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 5:57 am
It proposes to dismantle or radically overhaul the Departments of Justice and State; eliminate the Departments of Homeland Security, Education, and Commerce; radically repurpose other agencies; and eviscerate the professional civil service. [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm
Rather, the case arose because Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Republican-dominated Texas legislature pursued a radical policy premised on the notion that a state could decide for itself that the federal government was not doing enough to enforce federal law and assume responsibility for that fundamentally federal function even in the teeth of opposition from the national executive. [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 9:21 pm
” Texas Governor Greg Abbott has defended the legislation by saying that it is necessary for the state’s “right to defend itself” against an irregular migrant “invasion” at the southern border. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 1:45 pm
Essentially, this new statute is just one more arrow being placed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott into the Operation Lone Star quiver of laws made available to state and local law enforcement to try and stop people from crossing the Mexican border into Texas outside of standard immigration procedures. [read post]
4 Mar 2024, 7:43 pm
The administrative hold issued by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito blocks the law from taking effect in the state of Texas until March 13. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 3:44 pm
Which brings us to a new piece of legislation passed by the Texas Legislature and signed into law by Governor Abbott, to be effective on March 5, 2024. [read post]
11 Feb 2024, 3:03 pm
#HouNews — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) February 11, 2024 Governor Greg Abbott today issued a statement on the shooting near Lakewood church in Houston: “Our hearts are with those impacted by today’s tragic shooting and the entire Lakewood Church community in Houston. [read post]
1 Feb 2024, 6:05 am
Texas’s Border Extremism is Escalating For three years, under Governor Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” program, Texas has sent thousands of state police and National Guard to border communities, where they have targeted migrants for arrest on state charges, conducted a disproportionate number of traffic stops, put up razor wire, and even reportedly pushed children back into the Rio Grande. [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 3:39 pm
In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down the Supreme Court’s ruling permitting Border Patrol to cut the razor wire installed by the National Guard, at the direction of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, along the Rio Grande at the U.S. [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 10:46 am
” Texas Governor Greg Abbot has used this “invasion” claim to justify open defiance of federal supremacy over control of the national border. [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 10:33 am
Governor Abbott’s Perilous Effort at Constitutional Realignment : "... [read post]
22 Jan 2024, 7:26 pm
State of Texas stems from an ongoing border crisis conflict between the Biden administration and Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Lone Star border control policy. [read post]
3 Jan 2024, 5:17 pm
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. [read post]
19 Dec 2023, 4:48 am
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18 Dec 2023, 5:42 pm
"] Today, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law S.B. 4. [read post]
18 Dec 2023, 4:15 pm
Governor Abbott and Texas Penal Code §20.05 and §20.06. [read post]
4 Dec 2023, 5:29 pm
In 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the implementation of Operation Lone Star here in Texas. [read post]
11 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
Last week, Federal District Judge David Ezra (appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan) ruled that the state of Texas and its Governor Greg Abbott likely acted unlawfully when they placed a system of buoys and barriers in part of the Rio Grande River. [read post]
8 Sep 2023, 1:03 pm
Texas Governor Greg Abbott appealed the order along with an emergency motion to stay the district court’s order earlier on Thursday. [read post]
