Fetterman also noted that Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick still owes him a reward for identifying these instances of voter fraud. In 2020, Patrick offered up to a $1 million reward to people who reported voter fraud that led to a conviction. He added, “There was no voter fraud. ...
NARRATOR: In 1821 Mexico won independence from Spain. The new country wanted to develop the frontier lands in its north—namely, Texas—which comprised the land between the Rio Grande and the Sabine River, Mexico's border with the United States. The region was populated sparsely by Hispanic se...
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Texas War of IndependenceIt is commonly assumed that the pre-codified, customary law of war had little true influence on the decisions or behavior of combatants in the western world. Evaluating this assumption concerning the custom (or norm) of the giving of quarter to enemy combatants in the...
The Electoral College was never intended to be the “perfect” system for picking the president, saysGeorge Edwards III, emeritus political science professor at Texas A&M University. “It wasn’t like the Founders said, ‘Hey, what a great idea! This is the preferred way to select the chie...
There was no breath of independence for women due to leap day. undefined Leap Year Did You Know?-leap intro wrap AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on the upcoming Leap Day February 29th. SHOULD WE PITY THE LEAPLINGS? Being born in a leap year on a leap day certainly is a ta...
Texas National Guard to enforce the regulation. He declared that the federal courts had no power to review his decision. The U.S. Supreme Court disagreed, explaining that “[t]here is no such avenue of escape from the paramount authority of the Federal Constitution.”[33]It ordered Texas ...
Miguel Levario, a Texas Tech history professor and author of “Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy,” said the U.S. government erected military bases such as Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, for the sole purpose of removing Native Americans from lands. “It had little to ...
looted. This time, however, the blow has completely devastated it. By eradicating this library, Russia has left a wound on Ukraine of a significance comparable to the destruction of the New York Public Library, home to historical treasures such as a draft of the Declaration of Independence. ...