Daily Briefing: Tuesday, November 10, 2026

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday stayed a federal court injunction that had blocked border wall construction in the Big Bend region, letting Washington resume work while it asks the Court to take the case, according to the Court’s docket in No. 26A560. The injunction came from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in a suit brought by Friends of the Ruidosa Church. The stay lasts until the Court acts on the government’s petition, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied it.

The Texas Attorney General’s Office on Monday filed a notice of nonsuit with prejudice in its case to shut down Annunciation House, the El Paso network of migrant shelters it first targeted with a records demand in February 2024, El Paso Matters reported. A dismissal with prejudice bars the office from refiling similar claims. The Texas Supreme Court had sided with the attorney general in May 2025, and the case was set for a hearing in El Paso in March.

Comptroller Don Huffines said Monday that the Austin Independent School District (Austin ISD) has stopped cooperating with his office’s performance review, one of four district reviews Gov. Greg Abbott requested, and that a full report will be published “with or without your cooperation,” according to the comptroller’s office. In a letter Friday, the district’s general counsel questioned the comptroller’s authority to interview employees and asked why investigators wanted records on library books and sex education, Austin Current and The Texas Tribune reported. Comptroller-elect Sarah Eckhardt has said she would limit the reviews to school finances, the outlets reported.

Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer filed House Bill 123 and Sen. José Menéndez filed an identical Senate Bill 99 on the first day of prefiling to repeal the laws that require certain sheriffs to sign agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to enforce federal immigration law, along with the grant program that pays for them, according to Texas Legislature Online.

California voters rejected Proposition 40, a one-time 5 percent tax on the total wealth of residents worth more than $1.1 billion that would have raised about $100 billion for health care, the BBC reported. Gov. Gavin Newsom opposed the measure, warning it could drive wealthy residents out of the state.

The Atassut party has left Greenland’s coalition government over a dispute about how Education Minister Nivi Olsen handled public subsidies, leaving Demokraatit and the pro-independence Inuit Ataqatigiit with 18 of the 31 seats in Inatsisartut, Greenland’s parliament, The Copenhagen Post reported, citing Sermitsiaq and KNR.

An Alamo Memorial March led by the Bexar County team of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) steps off at 6:30 PM on Saturday, November 14, at the Alamo in San Antonio, the TNM calendar shows.