Author: Acacia Coronado
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Uvalde City Council to release investigation of the police response to 2022 school massacre
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Almost two years after the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead, the city council will discuss the results of an independent investigation it requested into the response by local police officers
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Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants
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Texas’ plans to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally and order them to leave the country is headed to the Supreme Court in a legal showdown over the federal government’s authority over immigration
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Judge expresses skepticism at Texas law that lets police arrest migrants for illegal entry
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A federal judge has voiced concerns over a Texas law that would give police broad authority to arrest migrants on charges of illegal entry starting in March
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Storms tear into Texas, Oklahoma then move into Deep South
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ELGIN, Texas • A tornado has touched down in New Orleans and the city’s suburbs Tuesday as part of a line of severe weather that started in Texas and Oklahoma and moved east into the Deep South. The National Weather Service retweeted a video of the tornado in the eastern part of New Orleans that…
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Texas mail ballot rejections soar under new restrictions
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AUSTIN, Texas • Texas threw out mail votes at an abnormally high rate during the nation’s first primary of 2022, rejecting nearly 23,000 ballots outright under tougher voting rules that are part of a broad campaign by Republicans to reshape American elections, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. Roughly 13% of mail ballots…
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Texas flagged 27,000 mail ballots for rejection in primary
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AUSTIN, Texas • More than 27,000 mail ballots in Texas were flagged for rejection in the first test of new voting restrictions enacted across the U.S., jeopardizing votes cast by Democrats and Republicans alike and in counties big and small, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. It puts the rate of rejected mail…
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Texas GOP voting changes on cusp of going to governor
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AUSTIN, Texas • The Texas House gave final approval Tuesday to a sweeping rewrite of the state’s election laws, pushing the bill to the cusp of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott desk and inching Democrats toward a bruising defeat in a monthslong fight over voting rights. The bill passed the GOP-controlled chamber after a last-minute removal…
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Texas Democrats return, end 38-day holdout over voting bill
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AUSTIN, Texas • A standoff in Texas over new voting restrictions that gridlocked the state Capitol for 38 consecutive days ended Thursday when some Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C., dropped their holdout, paving the way for Republicans to resume pushing an elections overhaul. It abruptly and messily drew to a close one of the…
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Despite 15-hour filibuster, Texas passes sweeping election bills
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AUSTIN, Texas • A Texas state senator ended a 15-hour filibuster Thursday in the Democrats’ latest defiance over new voting restrictions, but it only delayed Republicans who went on to approve the sweeping elections bill just minutes after she wearily left the floor. The GOP’s sustained efforts to tighten Texas’ election laws, however, remained no…