The only silver lining to this dark cloud is that maybe, just maybe, a fiscal crisis in Europe will cause Republicans to sober up and realize that the United States needs spending restraint (but I won’t hold my
The lawsuit, announced by the Republican attorney general of Texas Ken Paxton, was filed directly with the Supreme Court, as is permitted for certain litigation between states. The Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority including three justices appointed by Trump. The lawsuit represe...
The Justice Department's filing asks the conservative-majority court to lift a judge's court order temporarily reinstating Hampton Dellinger as the leader of the Office of Special Counsel. Feb 17 Why is TikTok banned? What to know about the law U.S. officials have long feared that the...
Inside the first fentanyl police unit in North Texas Part I: "It's a sad sight of humanity" More than 111,000 people in the US have died from drug overdoses in one year. The vast majority are because of fentanyl, and police departments are fighting back. Jan 3, 2024 Man faces mu...
Texas represents a national demographic shift that will cause the United States to become a “minority-majority” country in the near future. Texas achieved that status in 2004, when racial and ethnic minority populations, both native and foreign-born, collectively outnumber non-Hispanic whites; in...
Five conservative justices in the majority wrote that petitioners raised ‘serious questions’ about the law’s constitutionality but argued they didn’t meet certain procedural thresholds.
and money flowed from Texans United for a Conservative Majority, a political action committee backed by two West Texas billionaires, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks. In the final count after the March primary and the runoff elections on May 28, fifteen Republican incumbents were knocked off. But in ...
Texas has nearly 14,500 confirmed deaths from COVID-19, the fourth-highest in the nation, with the vast majority of those deaths occurring this summer. “There are some Texans who want to fully open Texas 100% as if COVID is no longer a threat,” Abbott said from his office a...
LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) - Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton lashed out on Friday against his critics trying to impeach him, saying that removing him from office would be a gift for President Joe Biden and his Democratic agenda. Paxton, a conservative firebrand and ally of ...
Texas immigration ruling puts spotlight on nation’s most conservative federal appeals court “For nearly 150 years, the Supreme Court has held that the power to control immigration — the entry, admission, and removal of noncitizens — is exclusively a federal power,” wrote Richman, an appoin...