In light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling over the state’s political maps, Texas is now trying to eliminate the possibility of a return to federal oversight of its election laws as part of the case against the state’s voter ID law.
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Criminal Justice
Danny Bible executed for a 1979 rape and murder, despite claims that he was too sick for lethal injection
The death row inmate argued that officials likely wouldn’t be able to find a vein, and he proposed that the state instead use a firing squad or nitrogen gas. His execution proceeded with no indication of trouble injecting the drugs.
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Environment
Texas-New Mexico water fight could be impacted by SCOTUS ruling
The high court’s decision lowers the burden of proof for states locked in similar water battles with upstream neighbors.
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Families Divided
Feds pledge in court to provide more information to parents suing over separation from their kids
A U.S. Department of Justice lawyer promised in a D.C. federal court Wednesday to provide three Central American parents who are suing the federal government with information about and regular contact with their kids.
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TribCast
Crisis on the border, 5-year anniversary of the Wendy Davis filibuster and the latest UT/Texas Tribune poll
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Jay, Neena, Edgar and Ross about inconsistent efforts to reunify immigrant parents and kids on the border, how Texas voters feel about separating families in the name of immigration enforcement, and the legacy of the Wendy Davis filibuster.
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TribCast
Family separations, political horse races, guns, weed and the NFL, from the UT/TT pollsters
In this special edition of the TribCast, Texas Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey sits down with University of Texas at Austin pollsters Daron Shaw, Jim Henson and Josh Blank to talk about the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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State Government
Potentially expanding his executive power, Gov. Greg Abbott orders agency heads to run proposed rules by him first
Texas has traditionally had a weak governor’s office. But Abbott’s request could give him more say in how agencies operate.
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Politics
Texas’ U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn likely to play big roles in picking Justice Anthony Kennedy’s replacement
The state’s two U.S. senators are likely to play pivotal roles in what is expected to be a politically explosive confirmation process.
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Immigration
A viral Facebook fundraiser has generated more than $20 million for immigration nonprofit RAICES
Over the last week and a half, a Facebook fundraising page has generated more than $20 million for RAICES — three times the nonprofit’s annual budget and more than 40 times what it raised in all of 2017.
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Politics
U.S. House rejects immigration bill that included pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, border wall funding
As expected, Republicans were unable to reconcile differences within their party to move a major immigration bill through the U.S. House chamber Wednesday.
