Tens of thousands of DACA recipients, many of them Texans, have until Thursday to submit their renewal applications for the Obama-era immigration program that the Trump administration has said will end early next year.
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Courts
Judge blocks Texas secretary of state from giving voter information to Trump commission
A judge’s order adds Texas to a growing list of states not complying with President Donald Trump’s investigation into the 2016 elections, which Trump says suffered from large-scale voter fraud.
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Congress
U.S. House committee approves Texan’s bill to put $10 billion toward border wall
A congressional committee voted Wednesday to send to the full U.S. House a bill appropriating $10 billion toward building a border wall, but not before some Texas Democrats found ways to mock the proposal.
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Economy
Texas business mogul Mark Cuban offers details for hypothetical 2020 presidential run
Cuban said he would have “no problem” releasing his tax returns and declaring his business holdings if he were to run. He also outlined key issues he would focus on as a candidate.
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Texas Elections 2018
Facing Texas loyalists, Cruz grapples with GOP inaction under Trump
“As frustrated as y’all are, I’m sitting there everyday!” U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz told a Tea Party group Saturday at one of two events this weekend in which the Texas Republican insisted he too is frustrated with his party’s recent performance.
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Analysis: A political bargain that’s working out for social conservatives
In the president’s appointment of two Texans to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, conservatives are seeing the fruits of a bargain made in the 2016 elections: Donald Trump might not be their favorite, but they’re getting judges they want.
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Politics
Former official “fought as good of a fight as I could” to make Trump White House follow ethics rules
The consensus was clear at a discussion by ethics experts at the Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday: Donald Trump’s White House may be the most unethical administration Americans have ever seen.
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Livestream: Trump, Ethics and the Law
Comey. Mueller. Russia. Emoluments. Are we making something out of nothing? Watch our panel discussion.
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Criminal Justice
Livestream: Trump and the Resistance
Slate’s Jamelle Bouie leads a panel discussion with organizer DeRay Mckesson, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, The Indivisible Project’s Ezra Levin and Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran live at the Texas Tribune Festival.
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Politics
Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice: Pulling out of Iran deal would be the “height of folly”
Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice said leaving the Iran nuclear deal would isolate the United States and do nothing to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
