Texas To Add New Vehicle Checkpoints After 51 Migrants Found Dead In Truck

Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott

Texas is adding multiple new vehicle inspection checkpoints targeting semitrucks after dozens of migrants were found dead in a semitruck abandoned near San Antonio. “The bodies of at least 46 people were initially found in the tractor-trailer in the sweltering Texas heat, officials said. Sixteen others, including four children, were hospitalized, San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said,” NBC News reported. “The tragedy’s death toll rose to 51 on Tuesday afternoon, Bexar County officials said at a news conference, and some of the deceased could be teenagers who never reached adulthood.” Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the new security measures during

Justice Breyer Announces When He Will Retire From SCOTUS

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Supreme Court of the USA

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has announced that he will retire from the Supreme Court on Thursday at noon. “It has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our Constitution and the Rule of Law,” Breyer said in a letter to President Biden. “This past January, I wrote to inform you of my intent to retire from regular active service as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, upon the Court rising for its summer recess,” he wrote. “You have nominated and the United States Senate has confirmed the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson

Ronald Reagan: Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation

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On January 22, 1983, President Ronald Reagan released an essay on abortion that he had written. With the repeal of Roe v. Wade in June of 2022, it is worth going back to recall that Reagan essay on abortion and Roe v. Wade, then ten years old. Here it is in full, unedited: “The 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade is a good time for us to pause and reflect. Our nationwide policy of abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy was neither voted for by our people nor enacted by our legislators – not

New Missouri Law Increases Kansas City Police Budget

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On Monday, Republican Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed a bill that will require the Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) to receive at least 25% of Kansas City’s general revenue per fiscal year. The bill came in response to an attempt by Democrat Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas and the city council to cut the police department’s budget by $42.3 million last year as part of the wider push by the Democratic party to “defund the police.” “When a majority of the City Council voted to strip $42 million from KCPD’s budget in 2021, I knew I had to do something

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