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June 9, 2025 6:41 PM
The NYT
politics team puts
some flesh on the bone about rumors we’ve heard in Austin for months:
President
Trump’s political team is encouraging Republican leaders in Texas to examine
how House district lines in the state could be redrawn ahead of next year’s
midterm elections to try to save the party’s endangered majority, according to
people in Texas and Washington who are familiar with the effort.
The push
from Washington has unnerved some Texas Republicans, who worry that reworking
the boundaries of Texas House seats to turn Democratic districts red by adding
reliably Republican voters from neighboring Republican districts could backfire
in an election that is already expected to favor Democrats. Rather than flip
the Democratic districts, new lines could endanger incumbent Republicans.
But a
person close to the president, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the
person was not authorized to talk publicly, nevertheless urged a “ruthless”
approach and said Mr. Trump would welcome any chance to pick up seats in the
midterms. The president would pay close attention to those in his party who
help or hurt that effort, the person warned.
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June 9, 2025 4:21 PM
As
elections go, this past weekend’s municipal runoffs didn’t result in any
startling news compared to the first go-around in May, where firebrand
conservatives on school boards and city councils saw big losses in Mansfield,
Keller and Katy.
This time
the results were mixed.
The rest of the story, subscribers only
By James Russell
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June 7, 2025 9:00 PM
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June 5, 2025 10:52 AM
It's like if you didn't pay your rent or make mortgage payments for 6 years, then wrote a huge check and said "This is the most I've ever given you by far!" Quorum Report Editor Scott Braddock wraps up the legislative session on KSAT News in San Antonio
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June 5, 2025 10:36 AM
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June 4, 2025 7:38 PM
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June 4, 2025 2:57 PM
The
breaking news via Houston Chronicle reporter Taylor Goldenstein:
The
Department of Justice is suing the state of Texas over a longstanding policy
that allows undocumented immigrants to receive in-state college tuition.
Texas
lawmakers considered outlawing the practice in the legislative session that
ended Monday, as they have in previous sessions, but the half a dozen proposals
failed to gain traction. None passed in either chamber.
The
Justice Department argued that the policy violates federal law, which prohibits
undocumented immigrants from being eligible for any benefit on
the basis of state residence for any post-secondary education benefit
unless citizens are also eligible. “The State of Texas has ignored this law for
years,” reads the government’s petition, filed in federal court in Wichita
Falls. “This Court should put that to an end and permanently enjoin enforcement
of certain provisions of the Texas Education Code that expressly and directly
conflict with federal immigration law.”
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June 4, 2025 2:48 PM
“I can’t begin to put into writing what my sweet momma meant to me,” wrote Rep. Harris. “I know her unconditional love impacted more lives than we can count. She was the personification of a Proverbs 31 woman.”
The obituary
for Janis
Redding Harris is here. Depending on your browser you may have to right click the link and open in a new tab.
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June 3, 2025 5:05 PM
He announced shortly after the commissioners court voted 3-2 on redistricting cementing a Republican majority
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June 2, 2025 4:42 PM
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June 2, 2025 2:29 PM
Judicial pay and lawmaker pensions will apparently still be linked but Texas Ethics Commission will make a recommendation
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June 2, 2025 1:44 PM
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June 2, 2025 1:43 PM
Statesman
Reporter Bayliss Wagner with
the update:
The U.S.
Supreme Court has declined to hear a conservative activist’s lawsuit
challenging the Texas Ethics Commission’s enforcement powers, effectively
ending a decade-long effort to weaken the watchdog agency.
Michael
Quinn Sullivan and Empower Texans, a now-disbanded powerful political advocacy
group largely funded by West Texas oil billionaires Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks,
filed the lawsuit in 2014 after the ethics agency fined Sullivan $10,000 for
failing to register as a lobbyist. The commission unanimously found he worked
to influence GOP lawmakers' votes on behalf of Empower Texans, a position for
which he was paid around $130,000 annually.
An El Paso
appeals court in 2022 upheld the agency’s ability to enforce election laws, and
the all-Republican Texas Supreme Court declined to take up the case on appeal.
Sullivan then made a Hail Mary request to the nation’s highest court.
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June 2, 2025 11:39 AM
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June 2, 2025 10:00 AM
KVUE TV anchor Ashley Goudeau and Quorum Report Editor Scott Braddock discuss the final days of the legislative session
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June 2, 2025 9:46 AM
Texas Education Agency also removed and replaced four appointed members of the Board of Managers
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