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Uvalde Judge Suspended After Indictment for Official Oppression
Judge Mitchell allegedly had a UPS delivery driver handcuffed for disorderly conduct after he refused to deliver up multiple flights of stairs.
Texas State University Regents Approve New Faculty Advisory Bodies
The entities will now comply with a new state law.
Buzbee Announces Lawsuit Against ‘Influential’ Austin Lobby Group
Neither the victim nor the target were named in a social media announcement.
Texas Moves To Open Criminal Probes Into Islamic Organizations for Terror Ties
The directive follows Abbott’s earlier designation of CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations.
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UT-Austin Invited Conservative To Help Draft Academic Integrity Statement
The University of Texas at Austin picked a previously controversial social conservative to help draft a new “statement on academic integrity” as part of its plan to restore public trust in higher education. Professor Mark Regnerus authored a paper in 2012 that argued...
Retired Judge Reprimanded for Telling Juveniles She Hopes ‘Big Black Men’ Use Them as ‘Sex Toys’
Jennifer Eggen, a retired Hereford Municipal Court judge in Deaf Smith County, has been publicly reprimanded for berating and demeaning juveniles and their parents in her courtroom. According to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct (SCJC), which is responsible for...
Texas A&M To Pay Former President Mark Welsh $3.5 Million
Regents of the Texas A&M University System agreed to pay Mark Welsh, former president of Texas A&M–College Station, a settlement worth more than $3.5 million. The settlement agreement reportedly includes assurances that the Texas A&M University System will...
Houston Doctor Joins Lawsuit Against the Federation of State Medical Boards
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden of Houston has joined a lawsuit accusing the Federation of State Medical Boards of conspiring to punish and silence doctors who expressed dissenting opinions on vaccine mandates and COVID-19 treatments. The lawsuit accuses the Federation of...
Can the Texas Medical Board Police Campaign Speech?
Texas’ Supreme Court has signaled that the Texas Medical Board may not have the right to police campaign speech. The case is being sent back to the trial court, which will rule on the merits. The case was brought by Rey Gonzalez Jr., a Republican candidate from...
Two Lovejoy ISD Teachers on Leave Over Alleged Misconduct
Two Lovejoy High School teachers are on leave over separate allegations of misconduct involving students. On Monday, Lovejoy Independent School District officials notified families that Sean McMurry and Michael Rodriguez had been placed on administrative leave “out of...
Another Celina ISD Coach on Leave Over Alleged Misconduct
In what parents suspect is a case of “passing the trash,” another Celina coach is on leave over allegations of misconduct. Celina Independent School District put wrestling coach Neil Phillips on administrative leave after information was posted to social media on...
Federal Appeals Court To Take Up Texas’ Ten Commandments Law
The full U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear two high-profile cases challenging Texas’ and Louisiana’s laws requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. All active judges on the court agreed that these cases will proceed...
ICE Houston Arrests Fleeing Illegal Alien Stuck on Sign
A recent operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston led to the arrest of an illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member after a dramatic attempt to escape authorities. ICE officers identified and pursued Marlon Odir Gomez Hernandez, a...