Jill Ament
Texas Standard Producer-
Texas Republican Party leaders want the state to adopt laws that would shorten the early voting period and no longer allow mail-in voting for anyone 65 and up. -
A partir de este otoño en las escuelas públicas de Texas, el estado empezará a aplicar las llamadas "auditorías aleatorias de detección de intrusos". -
Campuses won’t be warned ahead of time about the “random intruder detection audits.”
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Nearly 40 migrants crossing the Mexico border into Texas have died in the El Paso region since October, and 15 of those deaths were caused by drowning in irrigation canals along the border wall. -
The Uvalde shooter’s history of truancy has been a focus of state lawmakers during legislative hearings at the Capitol. -
On Friday, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, abortions in Texas ceased despite the fact that the state’s trigger law banning the procedure has not yet gone into effect. -
“So it’s not just that it’s a rightward shift, it’s that there’s not really a slippery slope anymore. The justices are running to the bottom of the slope.” -
A bipartisan group of mayors from 13 major Texas cities is calling for a special legislative session to address mass shootings, most notably calling for certain gun reforms. -
“It’s beyond infuriating,” said Republican state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a member of the committee hearing public testimony this week. -
As people in Texas and across the country wait to see if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns federal abortion protections, there are also a handful of other pending opinions from the high court with Texas implications, from immigration to gun control.
