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McTelvin Agim, a Texas native, talks about Juneteenth holiday

Juneteenth became a federal holiday last year.

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After Cornyn blames jeers at Texas GOP on ‘mob,’ gun rights group demands apology

WASHINGTON — Jeered at the Texas Republican convention for his role in Senate gun talks and drowned out by chants of “No red flags,” Sen. John Cornyn dismissed the booing GOP delegates as a “mob.”

Tribune News Service

“If there’s kids in there, we need to go in”: Officers in Uvalde were ready with guns, shields and tools — but not clear orders

The Texas Tribune has reviewed law enforcement transcripts and footage that federal and state investigators are examining after the May 24 tragedy.

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Boy, 5, dies in hot car after being left for up to 3 hours by mum preparing party

A five-year-old boy was mistakenly left inside a car by his mum in Texas, who had thought he had got himself out, while she went on to prepare for his sister's birthday party, it is claimed

Daily Mirror

Family stunned at funeral when casket contained wrong body sent from Fort Worth, lawsuit says

FORT WORTH, Texas — Jose Gonzalez’s death in March 2020 was sudden. But for his family, the most shocking part of their loved one’s death came on the day of his funeral in California, when they approached the open casket and, inside, saw the wrong body.

Tribune News Service

Texas Republicans want to secede from the United States. Could they do it?

Texas has long had an independent streak. But just how likely is it that the Lone Star state will chart its own path?

The Independent UK

Texas Senate Democrats call again for a special session on gun safety in response to Uvalde shooting

The senators said they would support proposals like raising the age to legally own an assault weapon from 18 to 21, creating red flag laws and regulating private gun sales.

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Congresswoman who authored abortion rights bill calls Senate’s inaction to codify Roe v Wade ‘such a crime’

The California Congresswoman and author of Democrats’ legislation to codify abortion protections speaks with Eric Garcia about the end of Roe v Wade, abortion rights and why the filibuster needs to go

The Independent UK

Cooling down the hottest cities needs momentum

Extreme heat is having its moment in the sun. This year's headlines have been as relentless as the temperatures: "Spain endures record heatwave," "Devastating heatwave in South Asia," "Texas shatters heat record," "Can you even call deadly heat 'extreme' anymore?"

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Why these prosecutors are refusing to enforce criminal anti-abortion laws in their states

‘Trigger’ bans in more than a dozen states will quickly or immediately outlaw abortion without Roe v Wade protections. It will be up to the discretion of district attorneys and law enforcement whether providers will be criminally charged, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK

Texas GOP's new platform says Biden didn't really win. It also calls for secession

"We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election," the Republican Party of Texas says, referring to President Biden as the "acting" leader.

WEKU

Published Article in TROLP: "Judicial Courage"

The Texas Review of Law & Politics published my new article, Judicial Courage. Here is the abstract. What is judicial courage? Supreme Court Justices often accuse their colleagues of lacking fortitude, but they seldom explain what this concept means. This Essay provides a brief discourse about judicial courage. Part I…

Reason

Law officers testifying for committee on Uvalde shooting

A legislative committee investigating the deadly shooting at a Texas elementary school last month is set to hear more testimony from law enforcement officers

The Independent UK

No, Texas can’t legally secede from the U.S., despite popular myth

The theme of independence has recurred throughout the history of Texas, which was a republic from 1836–45. But the Civil War established that a state cannot secede.

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The Independent UK

Texas GOP wants to vote on whether to secede from US

Republicans say Texas “should reassert its status as an independent nation” and hold referendum in 2023

The Independent UK

Five shocking proposals from the Texas GOP’s radical new platform

Republicans in the US’s second-largest state have formulated a political programme that’s extreme even by their party’s current standards

The Independent UK

Texas’s Greg Abbott has spent more than $3m busing migrants out of the state

Texas governor’s plan has been criticised as expensive publicity stunt by Democrats

Reason

Texas Law Enforcement Is Aggressively Fighting Public Records Requests About the Uvalde Mass Shooting

Transparency advocates say police could invoke a notorious loophole that allows them to hide records of deaths in custody and police killings.

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Texas Republican party adopts far-right position that homosexuality is ‘abnormal’

Delegates at biennial convention also approve platform declaring that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected

Reason

Profs. Adam Candeub & Philip Hamburger on "The Common Carrier Cure for First Amendment Uncertainty"

An interesting new twist on the argument, which particularly focuses on how social media quasi-common-carrier regulations can fight governmental pressure on platforms to censor certain material; it reminded me of Ian Samuel's The New Writs of Assistance, which similarly argued that some Big Tech companies should be legally required to…

Texas Observer

How Port Lavacans Resisted the KKK to Provide Education for All

A new work of historical fiction, set for release June 23, explores a Texas freedmen’s school and raises questions of white authorship.

Tribune News Service

Key takeaways from the Texas GOP convention as the midterm election season nears

HOUSTON — Texas Republicans exited their state convention Saturday confident that they will have sweeping victories over Democrats in the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

Reason

Senators Want To Control Google Search Results About Abortion

Plus: Uvalde cops didn't check classroom door, Texas GOP slides further to the right, telemedicine deregulation in peril, and more...

The Independent UK

What is Juneteenth and why is it a holiday?

Thousands of enslaved people in Texas were ordered free two years after Emancipation Proclamation

Daily Mirror

Meghan Markle's kind phone call to family of teacher killed in Texas shooting

The nephew of Irma Garcia, a teacher who was killed alongside 19 children and a fellow educator during a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas last month, said that "sweet and lovely" Meghan Markle has shared her condolences with the family

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