Republicans Celebrate End Of Roe v Wade, Democrats Vow To Fight On

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Texas Republican leaders celebrated the overturning of Roe v. Wade on Friday as Democrats vowed to fight back at the ballot box.

The landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision returned the issue of abortion access to the states, and due to a “trigger law” in Texas, the state will ban all abortions from the moment of fertilizations starting 30 days from the court’s issuance of a judgment, which typically comes about a month or so after the opinion.

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Texas Supreme Court Hears Redistricting Bias Case

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Texas Supreme Court justices have heard arguments a challenge to Congressional maps drawn up after the 2020 U.S. Census.

The Mexican American Legislative Caucus mounted the legal challenge claiming state lawmakers diluted the vote of communities of color despite those communities accounting for the state's population growth, which in turn resulted in Texas gaining two congressional districts.

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#Texas Supreme Court Upholds School Mask Mandates; Paxton Defiant

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The Texas Supreme Court upheld school mask mandates in the state on Thursday, at least temporarily.

After a judge in Travis County, which encompasses the state capital of Austin, issued a temporary restraining order rejecting Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates, the decision was appealed to the high court, which upheld the lower court’s ruling.

Attorney General Ken Paxton said the ruling wasn't a defeat.

"Recent SCOTX decision is NOT a mask-mandate loss. Not a loss for freedom-loving Texans or the Rule of Law. A common procedural move that fake news is spinning. We addressed it & will press forward. I will defend TX Law & sue every entity that violates it. We will win! Stay tuned."

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#Texas Supreme Court Denies Request To Overturn Abbott Veto

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The Texas Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request from Texas state House Democrats to overturn Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) veto on funding for the state's legislature.

Filed in June, the petition argued that Abbott's veto was unconstitutional and violated the separation of powers between branches of government.

Abbott vetoed the legislature's funding after a group of state Democrats left Texas to prevent the passage of voting legislation that critics have said would limit voter access.

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Sen. John Cornyn Publicly Doubts Texas State Supreme Court Suit For Trump

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Texas Sen. John Cornyn has criticized a Supreme Court lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to have the Supreme Court invalidate election results in four key battleground states - Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Cornyn said he is unconvinced by the case's legal theory.

"Number one, why would a state, even such a great state as Texas, have a say-so on how other states administer their elections?" Cornyn asked CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju. "We have a diffused and dispersed system, and even though we might not like it, they may think it's unfair, those (election policies) are decided at the state and local level and not at the national level."

So far, the Republican attorneys general of 17 red states have signed amicus briefs in support of Paxton's lawsuit including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia, Vice News reports.

His colleague, Sen. Ted Cruz, has volunteered to argue the a similar case in front of the Supreme Court.

Paxton's lawsuit basically says that local officials changed voting policies, including the expansion of mail-in ballots due to COVID-19, without the permission of state legislatures, thus violating Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution. As such, he wants the four states' ballots thrown out and each state's Republican-led legislature to decide who to cast their own electoral votes for rather than casting them for the winner of the popular vote.

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