More details on the arrest and death of Sandra Bland were released, among them records that showed Bland told jailers she had previously attempted suicide. Bland, who was arrested under a charge of assaulting an officer during a traffic stop, was found hanged in her Waller County jail cell on July 13.

Donald Trump visited Laredo on Thursday, a day after former Gov. Rick Perry doubled down on his criticisms of his fellow GOP presidential candidate. At a speech in Washington on Wednesday, Perry called Trump “a cancer on conservatism” and a “toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday asked a federal district judge to dismiss a lawsuit that claims a state agency violated the U.S. Constitution by denying birth certificates to U.S.-citizen children of immigrant parents. In a separate case, Paxton has quietly conceded a case against the federal government over medical leave benefits for certain same-sex couples.

The Legislative Budget Board wrote in a memo that some of Gov. Greg Abbott’s line-item vetoes in the state budget might be invalid. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who co-chairs the LBB, said he’s backing the governor in the budget fight and said his office didn’t start the veto inquiry, despite a spokesman for House Speaker Joe Straus saying both offices asked for a memo on the issue.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent running for president as a Democrat, rallied thousands of Texans on Sunday in Dallas and Houston as part of his 50-state strategy, and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican, said in Houston that Republicans won’t win in 2016 by “playing nice with the Clintons.”