Author: Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor, Washington Examiner

(The Center Square) – The first U.S. attorney general in history to be held in criminal and civil contempt by Congress has targeted Republican justices on the Texas Supreme Court, arguing Republicans are racist and Democrats need to be in control of redistricting. In 2017, former Attorney General Eric Holder, with support from former president…

(The Center Square) – After 158 U.S. House Democrats voted against deporting sex offenders, including child rapists, and one U.S. Senate Democrat blocked a bill to strengthen protections for unaccompanied minors, a Texas group is again calling on state leaders to act. “Despite the extraordinary efforts of [U.S.] Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-IA, and others, Congress…

(The Center Square) – Texas has launched a reward program offering up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrests of Tren de Aragua gang members. This is after Gov. Greg Abbott declared the gang a foreign terrorist organization and after Texas Department of Public Safety troopers have arrested gang members and a Democratic county attorney sued…

(The Center Square) – A Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate is under scrutiny for his claims about border security. Similar to Senate Democrats claiming to support border security, including distancing themselves from Biden-Harris administration policies, U.S. Rep. Collin Allred, D-Dallas, who’s challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says he will secure the border.…

(The Center Square) – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently expressed outrage over “Texas’ latest move” installing barriers in an area where they have been for nearly one year. A KRQE News report claims Texas Army National Guard troops were erecting concertina wire fencing along the Rio Grande River near El Paso “on the…

(The Center Square ) – Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Chris Olivarez is sounding the alarm about an increase of “Special Interest Aliens” (SIAs) being apprehended attempting to illegally enter the U.S. from Mexico. In a social media post, he published a video of an interview between a Texas DPS trooper and a Turkish…

(The Center Square) – As Americans struggle with high inflationary costs, paying record high grocery costs and energy bills, Congress continues to allocate billions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund services for illegal border crossers living in U.S. cities. Prior to the last budget funding showdown in March, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, said…

(The Center Square) – Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson has requested information from the Biden administration “to provide citizenship data to help Texas maintain secure voter rolls.” “Texas demands this information. The federal government must stop hiding the ball. We must have clean elections where only eligible voters cast votes,” Gov. Greg Abbott said…

(The Center Square) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued another county for allegedly violating state election law, this time, the Travis County Commissioners Court. The lawsuit was filed in the District Court of Travis County and names the Travis County Tax Assessor-Collector and Voter Registrar, county judge and commissioners as defendants. On August…

(The Center Square) – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has landed another large endorsement in his reelection bid for his third term in the Senate, this time from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The nonpartisan pro-business group endorsed Cruz after twice endorsing his opponent, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, when he ran for Congress. The…