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Texas Appeals Federal Order to Air Condition Every State Prison by 2029
The state asked the Fifth Circuit to overturn a deadline to cool all 104 prisons by 2029 and asked the trial judge to suspend the order, citing a $1.5 billion cost.
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- Political Analysis
Appeals Court Strikes Down 1968 Ban on Interstate Handgun Sales
The Fifth Circuit struck the federal ban on interstate handgun sales in a case brought by a Texas dealer.
- Political Analysis
Supreme Court Lets Texas Resume Voter Citizenship Checks Through Federal Database
The Supreme Court restored DHS's expanded SAVE citizenship database, which Texas used to check all 18 million registered voters. Travis County told the Court the data flagged citizens as noncitizens.
- Late Night Coffee Talk
Washington Shorts Texas on the $11 Billion Border Bill, and the New Mexico Hearing Opens a Door for a Texas Vote
Texas spent more than $11 billion doing the federal government’s job on the border during the Biden years.
- Texas News
A Federal Judge Set the Deadline for Air Conditioning Every Texas Prison. The Legislature Will Write the Check.
Judge Robert Pitman ordered air conditioning in every Texas prison by December 31, 2029, told TDCJ to report what it will ask the Legislature for, and ruled that a shortage of funds...
- Texas News
Washington Will Repay Texas $7.5 Billion for Holding the Border. Texas Spent More Than $11 Billion Doing It.
Washington will send Texas $7.5 billion for border security, 14 months after Congress authorized it.
- Texas News
Washington Waived Texas Law to Bulldoze Big Bend
A June 9 federal order waived Texas's own laws to send bulldozers into Big Bend National Park for border barriers and patrol roads.
- Texas News
Texas Blocks Federal Gun-Sale Rule as Trump DOJ Drops Defense
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a win last week that gun owners in Texas and seven other states won’t forget.
- Texas News
5th Circuit Revives Texas Border Law. The Larger Fight Remains.
A federal appeals court cleared the way Friday for Texas to enforce Senate Bill 4, the 2023 law that would allow state and local police to arrest people suspected of entering the...
- Texas News
Federal Judge Blocks Texas From Defending Energy Sector
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright overturned Texas Senate Bill 13, declaring unconstitutional a state law protecting pension funds from fossil fuel boycotts.
- Political Analysis
Alito Blocks Federal Assault on Texas Electoral Map
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily restored Texas's 2025 congressional map after federal judges blocked the state's electoral sovereignty.
- Texas News
Federal Court Blocks Texas Congressional Map Citing Racial Gerrymandering
A three-judge federal panel ruled Tuesday that Texas cannot use its new GOP-drawn congressional map for 2026, forcing the state back to 2021 district lines.
