Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to soon sign an immigration enforcement bill into law. Senate Bill 4 was passed by the state House and Senate during the legislature’s 4th special session.

An appellate court added another twist in the ongoing legal battle over buoys placed in the Rio Grande river as a deterrent to illegal immigration. Earlier this week a federal court judge ordered Texas to move the buoys to the riverbank, but the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed that order roughly 24 hours after it was issued.

For the past year, words like sedition, treason, and insurrection have been used to describe what happened on Jan. 6, 2021.Yet, none of the hundreds of people charged in connection with that day have been charged with those specific crimes.

Six justices — including two who voted against blocking Senate Bill 8 when it first went into effect — voiced concern that other states could replicate the controversial law’s enforcement mechanism.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is promising to sue over the president’s plan that impacts tens of millions of working Americans.

HOUSTON – The 25th Amendment became part of the Constitution in 1967 after being ratified by the states. The law essentially lays out what happens if a president is removed from office, either temporarily or permanently. Blackman said if eight of the 15 cabinet members and the vice president agree the president cannot discharge the duties of the office, the president is relieved of power. “They would need two-thirds in the House and two-thirds in the Senate to vote for removal,” Blackman said. The law also allows the president to nominate a vice president in the event of a vacancy in that office.