Texas GOP chair says in light of Supreme Court tossing out Texas case, "Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution.”
Ben Wermund
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Ben Wermund
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Senior political reporter for Hearst Newspapers in Texas (@HoustonChron, @ExpressNews, @statesman) | Send me tips 📩 [email protected]
Austin, TX
Joined October 2008
- Exclusive: Officers working for Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push children into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to migrants, according to an email from a DPS trooper who described the actions as “inhumane.”
- .@tedcruz calls on Trump to address medical supply shortages by invoking Defense Production Act: “I don't want to see doctors having to make a choice of who gets to live and who has to die because they don't have the equipment to save their lives."
- .@tedcruz: “What I was working to do is find a way to reestablish widespread trust in the system.” No regrets amid growing calls for resignation: houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas… Today’s @HoustonChron:
- .@texasdemocrats say they raised at least $163,000 on Wednesday when celebrities including @HamillHimself and @GeorgeTakei and high-profile Democrats, including @AndrewYang, urged followers to donate with "Win Texas. Lose Trump." tweets:
- The Trump admin is planning to end federal support for coronavirus testing sites at the end of the month — including in Texas, where confirmed cases of COVID-19 are spiking. Locals officials are warning it will have “catastrophic cascading consequences.”
- "Donald Trump is the most dangerous man to ever occupy the Oval Office," says @JoaquinCastrotx, one of 9 impeachment managers. "If inciting a deadly insurrection is not enough to get a president impeached, then what is?"
- .@tedcruz, who voted against NDAA, calls language requiring the Department of Defense to rename military bases named for Confederates, including Fort Hood, "a political effort to erase our nation’s history"
- “You wouldn’t want the judge in a trial to be someone who has a financial relationship with the defendant, and that seems to be the case here.” Dan Patrick’s $125,000 loan to Ken Paxton adds to conflicts in Senate impeachment trial: houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas… w/ @ByEdMcKinley
- New: The owner of a pecan farm in Eagle Pass near where a pregnant woman was found caught in state-deployed razor wire said officials working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative are refusing to take it down despite his repeated requests.
- New: @JoaquinCastrotx is joining his brother @JulianCastro in endorsing @ewarren for president. The @HispanicCaucus chairman says Warren is "the only candidate who can unite the Democratic Party and our country, two things essential to defeating @realDonaldTrump."
- Replying to @benwermundThe July 3 account, reviewed by the @HoustonChron and @ExpressNews, discloses several previously unreported incidents the trooper witnessed in Eagle Pass, where the state of Texas has strung miles of razor wire and deployed a wall of buoys in the Rio Grande:
- Exclusive: President Biden says Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick delayed federal Beryl aid. “I've been trying to track down the governor ” Biden said. Patrick, acting gov, said he was "easy to find" and there was no delay. Abbott is on a business trip in Asia
