Texas Redistricting Breaks The Democratic Party

By I & I Editorial Board August 8, 2025 

Consider what has transpired in the past few weeks and ask yourself which political party is acting like petulant children. Earlier this year, the Justice Department found that four Texas districts drawn in 2021 are “unconstitutionally racially biased” because they violate the equal protection clause and “must be rectified immediately.”

Hans von Spakovsky, an election law expert at the Heritage Foundation, notes that not only did those Texas districts violate the Constitution, but the boundaries they drew in 2021 were based on faulty 2020 Census data, which had missed half a million Texans, and didn’t reflect the influx of 2 million people over the past five years.  So, the state redrew districts to pass constitutional muster and reflect the reality of Texas’ population, which, because it ends up creating more Republican-favored districts, sparked an unhinged national outrage.............The reason they are acting this way is that – after decades of being coddled by the media, entertainers, academia, and rich benefactors – they suddenly find themselves on the losing end of political winds sweeping the nation. And, like spoiled children who’d had their toys taken away, they can’t cope................ To Read More....

•  The Voting Rights Act is Illegal Racial Gerrymandering By Daniel Greenfield August 8, 2025 -  The battle between Texas and Democrat states over gerrymandering seems likely to touch on the biggest driver of Democrat gerrymandering which fundamentally altered the political balance of power in state after state. Louisiana v. Callais is likely headed for a big Supreme Court decision that will fundamentally change how the Voting Rights Act enforces minority districts. There’s nothing to celebrate about the 60th anniversary of the VRA, a civil rights era relic which long ago stopped fighting segregation and instead enforced partisan gerrymandering with no end in sight. When the Supreme Court began allowing VRA ‘monitoring’ of elections in some states to sunset, Democrats cried that segregation and slavery were about to come back......To Read More...
•  5 Things to Know About Trump’s Order Banning Political Debanking - ‘Everyone needs access to basic financial services,’ said Brian Knight, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom.   President Donald Trump’s executive order banning politicized debanking is intended to reverse what some analysts say is a trend of banks and payment services refusing service to people and companies for political, religious, or ideological reasons.   Advocates against political debanking cite cases of Christians and conservatives who they say have been victims of this process. This includes allegations by Christian organizations including Tennessee-based nonprofit Indigenous Advance Ministries, as well as Sam Brownback, the chairman of the National Committee for Religious Freedom (NCRF), and the president himself....................

Leftist Hypocrisy and Texas Gerrymandering

By Rich Kozlovich 

It's been interesting to watch the "Party of the Extreme" rant and rail at Republicans for doing what they've been doing for most of my adult life, gerrymander in order to get more Democrats elected than rightly should be elected, mostly based on race, and with approval of the courts based on the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was on a collision course with the Constitution, and SCOTUS partially gutted in 2012 with their Shelby County v. Holder decision noting that: 

Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. delivered the opinion of the 5-4 majority. The Court held that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act imposes current burdens that are no longer responsive to the current conditions in the voting districts in question. Although the constraints this section places on specific states made sense in the 1960s and 1970s, they do not any longer and now represent an unconstitutional violation of the power to regulate elections that the Constitution reserves for the states. The Court also held that the formula for determining whether changes to a state's voting procedure should be federally reviewed is now outdated and does not reflect the changes that have occurred in the last 50 years in narrowing the voting turnout gap in the states in question.

The fact is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act targets "intentional" racial discrimination, not "neutral policies untainted by racial intent that happen to lead to racially disproportionate outcomes," ....."There’s a big difference between prohibiting racial discrimination and endorsing disparate impact theory. ... It’s the difference between securing equality of opportunity regardless of race and guaranteeing equality of outcome based on race. It’s the difference between color blindness and critical race theory........."  

So much for Eric Holder's claim Texas' map is in violation of the Voting Right Act, and as for Obama, he's against gerrymandering, but only when it's not to his party's advantage.  

The Party of Extreme is never at a loss for hypocrisy and extremist rants.  Take Texas State Representative, Jolanda Jones.... who fled the state... compares this redistricting effort to the Holocaust.

The Democrats have fled the state in order to prevent a quorum, thus preventing a vote on redistricting.  Texas has faced this before and beat them, and Governor Abbot's not going to have it this time either.  His options are to issue warrants for their arrest forcing them back to vote, remove them from office, and in the past he stopped paying them, and even fining them $500 dollars a day.  

 Abbot calls their flight Dereliction of Duty, noting that:

In any other field, military, law enforcement, or medicine, willful abandonment of one’s duties in a time of need is not tolerated. In fact, it’s punished. If a firefighter left his station during a five-alarm blaze, the firefighter would be discharged. If a soldier abandoned his post during battle, he would be court-martialed, with two returning in fear of losing their seats.  Texas Attorney General Paxton announced on Tuesday he was seeking "judicial orders declaring that state Democrats who do not return to the legislature by the state House speaker's deadline have vacated their offices.

Abbot has enlisted the aid of FBI director Kash Patel to track down these misfits in order to have them extradited, but they've fled to states where Governors are harboring them, and that makes it unlikely extradition will happen.   

By the way, did anyone think to ask who's paying for all this?  Well, it turns out it is the man who can't seem to get elected to any office in Texas, Beto O'Rourke through his PAC  fund!  It also turns out that's quite possibly illegal, so he and his Democrat pals could face criminal charges.  

Lawmakers who flee Texas to prevent the state legislature from having enough members to pass laws are subject to $500-a-day fines under Texas house rules, which also prevent walkout participants from soliciting political contributions to pay those fines. Republican governor Greg Abbott has said that “any other person who ‘offers, confers, or agrees to confer'” such contributions to the “fleeing Democrat House members” may be in violation of state bribery laws.

Governor Pritzker of Illinois says Texas is ‘trying to steal’ seats, which is rich since Illinois is one of most gerrymandered states in America. This is the map they drew to "insure diversity", meaning less Republicans in Congress.

The state’s new gerrymandered congressional map seems hell-bent on making Republican congressmen from Illinois an endangered species.  Five Republicans are in Illinois’s U.S. House delegation, but that was apparently too many for the Democrats, who were in charge of Illinois redistricting last fall. They drew a map that packed all five Republicans into just three congressional districts.

 The Democrats are going nuclear over this and want to gerrymander their states to make sure more Democrats are elected, which should be interesting as their states are already so heavily gerrymandered it might be impossible to make it any worse, and Massachusetts is one of them.  In a state with over seven million people there's not not Republican representing them in the House of Representatives.  The fact is Democrats are tapped out with not enough states to gerrymander in their favor, and with declining populations they're being drained of support.  Which is why they're freaking out since in five years the new census will also drain these states of seats in the House of Representatives.  

States considering redistricting are Texas, with 5 seats going Republican, Florida with  3-5 seats going Republican,  Ohio with 2 seats going Republican, but the Ohio Supreme Court has interfered over an over again in the past in favor of Democrats, so that remains to be seen.  Indiana with 1-2 seats Republican,  Missouri with one 1 seat Republican, and California with 5 seats going Democrat, and New York is wanting to change the State's Constitution to authorize a new map to gerrymander the way their state is supposed to be gerrymandered.  Less Republicans and more Democrats.  

The Democrat's goal is to retake the House and grind Trump's initiatives into the ground and impeach him again...and again... and again.  However, gerrymandering may be the least of the Democrat's problems, as now lawsuits are proceeding against California and Illinois over corrupted voter rolls.

Federal courts have allowed two lawsuits to proceed against California and Illinois to force them to clean up their voter rolls. Democrats have been engaging in election fraud for well over a century and a half, but I don’t think any of us understood the extent of the election integrity problem in our day until the last few election cycles. One aspect of potential fraud is the presence of 'dirty names' on voter rolls—individuals who are not legally allowed to be there, whether because they are illegal aliens, deceased, or disqualified for other reasons. Those are the names Judicial Watch and two other organizations are suing to remove in two deep blue states.

If these suits are successful expect to see a lot more of them.  

But hey, why worry, be happy, Paul Begala assures Democrats they will win massively with a “40-seat landslide" in the Midterms.   I've met Begala, nice man, and very bright, which must mean he no more believes that than the man in the moon.  

Updates:   

Governor Abbott's Resolve Has the Backing of History - Gov. Abbot's actions, backed by history’s precedent, will ensure the redistricting vote happens, the maps are drawn, and Texas’ voice rings true in Washington.

Gerrymandering is as American as apple pie - Over the past few days, the mainstream media has gone bonkers as Texas seeks to redraw its congressional map. Likewise, Democratic politicians from across the nation are calling the pending redistricting a “threat to democracy.” Some have even it compared it to the Third Reich’s Holocaust! Obviously, this is way beyond the pale.......

 I guess Jolanda don’t know much about history - Who knew that we'd be talking so much about the Nazis these days? The Democrats are like the vending machine that pops a "Nazi" talking point every time they have something to criticize about President Trump......

HUGE: Trump Orders a New Census - "I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024. People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday.  The 2020 Census was alarmingly inaccurate, resulting in faulty congressional representation in Washington D.C. From the Heritage Foundation: ...........

 Texas AG Launches Investigation into Beto O’Rourke’s Political Groups Financial Support of Quorum-Breaking Democrats - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the investigation into whether Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s political group’s contributions to the House Democratic Caucus members are breaking the law. The investigation could lead to bribery charges if the State can prove the group is paying legislators not to exercise their vote on the measure to redistrict Texas’s congressional seats...............

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Investigation into a George Soros-Funded PAC for Illegally Funding Runaway Dems - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton may have uncovered one of the parties responsible for helping Texas Democrats flee the state on Sunday to stop mid-term redistricting.  On Thursday, Paxton issued a press release revealing that he is investigating the Texas Majority PAC (TMP), a George Soros-funded PAC, for illegally funding its activities. How unsurprising to learn that the most notorious Democrat funder almost certainly has his fingerprints all over this stunt.  “I’ve just launched an investigation into a Soros-funded PAC for unlawfully funding runaway Democrats,” Paxton wrote on X. “If Texas lawmakers are bowing to the Soros Slush Fund rather than the will of the voters, Texans deserve to know.”.....

 

What Can Be Learned from the Republican Spending Orgy in Texas?

June 2, 2025 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

  As shown by the lack of spending restraint in Trump’s absurdly named One Big Beautiful Bill. there are plenty of big-government Republicans in Washington. 

At the risk of understatement, they are not complying with the Golden Rule of fiscal policy.

What might surprise readers, however, is to learn that there are also plenty of big-government Republicans in Texas.

How many?

Enough to make some experts wonder whether there is much difference between Texas Republicans and California Democrats. Here are some excerpts from Vance Ginn’s recent analysis.

…lawmakers are preparing to pass a $337 billion budget for 2026–27, with state funds up 42.8% since 2022. That’s not “conservative governing”—that’s runaway progressive budgeting with an R next to it.  

This moment is especially troubling because Texas had every advantage: a booming economy, a $24 billion surplus, and $28 billion parked in the Rainy Day Fund. Yet from the outset, the political appetite was clear—not to return excess funds to taxpayers, but to spend, expand, ban, and centralize.  

Of that massive surplus, only about $6.5 billion is going to tax relief, and only about $3.5 billion in new relief that wasn’t already in law. The rest is poured into bloated agencies, corporate handouts, and vote-buying schemes that defy every principle of responsible budgeting.

While the most recent budget is very disappointing, GOP profligacy in the Lon Star State is hardly a new phenomenon.

Here’s a chart Vance shared in another one of his recent articles.

Returning to Vance’s original article, he zeroes in on the real problem, which is that there’s not an effective cap on spending growth.

What’s most frustrating is that all of this could have been avoided. The Sustainable Budget Project lays out a clear path forward: tie budget growth to population plus inflation—a principle that matches government growth with the average taxpayer’s ability to fund it. 

Had lawmakers followed this rule, we could have prevented overspending, driven down taxes… This session may go down as the most progressive in Texas history, not because Democrats were in control… 

We must adopt a strong constitutional spending limit that applies to all state and local spending, closes every property tax limit loophole, and requires a supermajority to exceed the limit.

What makes a spending cap so vital is that a state that has relatively good economic policy (Texas ranks #5 according to Economic Freedom of North America and ranks #6 according to Freedom in the Fifty States) is going to enjoy good growth.

And good growth will generate plenty of tax revenue (not income tax revenue since Texas has never made the mistake of adopting an income tax, but other tax revenues have grown rapidly because of more economic activity).

The problem, as Vance explained above, is that politicians have a hard time letting go of this extra revenue. Which is why a spending cap so important.

Indeed, it’s worth noting that some of the scholarly research on spending caps notes that they are effective for exactly this reason. They prevent politicians from spending windfall revenues.

The bottom line is that Texas needs a Colorado-style spending cap that restricts the budget so it can grow no faster than population plus inflation.

And government spending is the problem. Limit government and the symptoms of tax increases and more debt will go away.

P.S. The above analysis applies to countries (Greece, Barbados, France, Finland, Brazil, Colombia, and the United Kingdom), to states and provinces (Alaska, Puerto Rico, Alberta, Washington, Western Australia, Maryland, and California), and to local governments (New York City and Fairfax County).

Texas vs. California, Part IX

March 24, 2025 by Dan Mitchell @ International liberty

In Part XIII of my series comparing Texas and California (previous seven editions can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), I shared data showing that the burden of state spending was growing much faster in the not-so-Golden State.

Today’s column is going to compare job growth.

We’ll start with this chart, which shows a slam-dunk victory for the Lone Star State. Texas easily beats California in total job creation for 2024, as well as winning almost every category of employment in the private sector.

California created more government jobs, which is a Pyrrhic victory. And California also wins in creating what I call quasi-government jobs (a category that includes health care and social assistance).

The above chart comes from an editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal.

Here are some excerpts from that column.

…the Labor Department’s latest state jobs report…shows that California lost jobs in nearly every industry in the year before Donald Trump took office. …California gained a net 22,400 from January 2024 to January 2025. All of its net new jobs were in government (58,300), and healthcare, social assistance and private (often higher) education (148,200), which rely to a large extent on government spending. …Private businesses shed jobs in the year…a result of small businesses closing because of high taxes and other costs. …Large companies are also relocating workers to lower-tax and -cost states. Texas added 187,700 jobs over the same period… One problem for Democrats in Sacramento is that their progressive tax regime (with an effective top marginal rate of 14.5% on wage income and 13.3% on investment income)… A growing problem for Mr. Newsom’s national ambitions and his party is that California epitomizes the leftist policies that harm workers and employers. That’s why so many are leaving for Texas.

These are sobering numbers, especially since California has lots of natural advantages, such as weather. It also started out as a richer state.

But bad policy is like a cancer, eating away at state competitiveness.

The bottom line is that California’s class-warfare tax system and other policy mistakes are causing it to lose ground when compared to states such as Texas.

That continued last year and almost surely that trend will continue so long as Texas is smart enough to avoid an income tax (almost certainly) and smart enough to join the school choice club (supposedly imminent).

P.S. This joke about Texas and California is the 6th-most viewed column of all time. Very fitting.

Blue City Prosecutors and Their Lynch Mobs

Joe Fried CPA Apr 4, 2024 

Democrats don’t discriminate. They want to convict all “election deniers,” whether they are white, black, men, women, young, or old. Last week, 47-year old Kimberly Zapata learned that she may spend years in prison for exposing weaknesses in Wisconsin’s election system.

Zapata was the deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, and she saw a major vulnerability in the system: Anyone in Wisconsin could easily obtain military absentee ballots — real ones — simply by requesting them. And once they acquired those ballots, they could use them without satisfying the normal ID requirements.

How easy was it to get military ballots? To get 3 nice new ones, Zapata merely went to the public website (“My Vote Wisconsin”), and entered 3 phony names, 3 made-up Social Security numbers, and a phony mailing address. Zapata did not need to use any special passwords or equipment.

It is obvious that Zapata wasn’t trying to alter election results.....All of this was carefully explained in court, but to no avail. That’s because blue cities no longer use juries; instead, they use 12-person lynch mobs. The mob convicted Zapata of “misconduct in public office” (a felony), and 3 misdemeanor counts of election fraud. At her sentencing next month Kimberly Zapata could get up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $13,000. She has already lost her job and will never be able to hold a public office again.

Those charges may seem excessive but remember: Although election fraud is not a serious crime, exposing election fraud is very serious..............To Read More....

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Almost 7 million new non-driving voters in Texas tried to register in 2020, Over 5 million succeeded - Art Zark Apr 04, 2024 - I’ve been working on this all night and it is 4:25 AM, so this is going to be brief: I downloaded all of the HAVV data, then re-organized it so I could look at each state by year. The data covered the years 2011-2024. It is important to note that 2024 is only the first quarter, through the first week of March. The takeaways are that:......

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Citizen Groups Stepping Up to Demand Honest Elections -  Jack Gleason -I n any contest between two or more parties, an impartial referee is often necessary to ensure that the rules are followed fairly. This includes sports and competitions of all kinds, debates, and yes, even spelling bees in elementary school. Without impartial judges, there is no confidence that the victories were legitimate. This is why it is such a scandal whenever it is alleged that a referee in a hotly-contested college football championship has made a questionable game-changing call, or when a judge is found to have ties to the defendant that seemingly slants his ruling.

Texas Declares War – State Overreach or Self-Defense?

What the Constitution says about state action at the national border.

by Scott D. Cosenza, Esq. | Feb 1, 2024  @ Liberty Nation News  Tags: Articles, Law

(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

This week, Congress put the border skirmish between Texas and the Biden administration through the lens of our Constitution. While the House Homeland Security Committee moved Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ impeachment along, another committee hearing focused on Texas’ declaration of war. Is Governor Greg Abbott on sound legal ground for acting independently to secure the international border with Mexico? As the House Judiciary Committee heard, that may depend solely on the word invasion and what it means.

Don’t Mess with Texas

Abbott claims he was forced to act because “President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants.” The governor said he declared an invasion, triggering Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the US Constitution, invoking Texas’ right of self-defense. The Compact or Invasion Clause of the Constitution prohibits states from engaging in foreign policy or acting independently regarding foreign relations – but there’s a caveat:

“No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.”

Mark Brnovich, a Serbian immigrant and former Republican Attorney General of Arizona, was the first witness. He supports a reading of the Constitution that authorizes state action to secure the border. Brnovich said that the word invasion used in our founding charter includes the cartel capture of the Southern border. He draws his understanding from the Federalist Papers and arguments made by the father of the Constitution, James Madison. During a ratification debate, he proclaimed Virginia had the right to act against pirates and smuggles off her coast. Mr. Brnovich testified: “The courts have never said that states do not have the ability to protect themselves, that states do not have the ability to stop or repel an invasion.”

Subcommittee Chairman Chip Roy, a Republican from Texas, said, “The people of Texas have a right to defend themselves, just as I have a right to defend my home and my family if it is under attack.” The ranking minority member, Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), said the operative clause “refers to protection against armed hostility from a nation-state or organized political entity, not people fleeing danger in their home country and seeking protection under international and U.S. asylum laws….”

Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste

Democrats on the committee attacked the majority for milking the border crisis for political gain. “They want to grandstand in camo at the Rio Grande and impeach officials so they can campaign on bluster and boogeymen rather than doing the hard work of actually solving problems,” Ms. Scanlon said. The committee leadership also tossed out accusations of racism and that the fuss at the border was the stuff of Republicans’ racial animus. Meanwhile, Secretary Mayorkas is on his way to being impeached, and Democrats seem desperate to make a deal.

The legality of Governor Abbott’s actions is being litigated in the federal courts. The United States Supreme Court gave the Biden administration a win over Texas; however, the ruling was a short-term victory by a close 5-4 vote. It was decided on an emergency basis and only applies until the lower courts process the competing governments’ claims. Oral arguments in Department of Homeland Security v. Texas before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (our country’s most conservative) are scheduled for February 7.

 

Read More From Scott D. Cosenza, Esq.

GOP Rallies Behind Texas Governor Greg Abbott at the Border

The standoff between the Lone Star State and Biden's border patrol continues – and America is taking sides.

by James Fite | Jan 26, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News Tags: Articles, Illegal Immigration, Law

Despite a Supreme Court ruling that federal agents are allowed – for now – to cut the wire and re-open the border, the standoff between Texas and the Biden administration continues. Governor Greg Abbott isn’t backing down, and the GOP is standing with him. But who actually “owns” the land, regardless of what the deeds say? Who has the ultimate authority along the border, even on state- and privately-owned ground?

America Takes Sides

A group of 24 Republican governors released a statement Thursday, January 25, supporting Governor Abbott’s claim that Texas has a “constitutional right to self-defense.” While the state remains embroiled in a legal battle with the Biden administration – which the Supreme Court has yet to decide, despite the short-term ruling issued Monday – Governor Abbott has kept Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, a popular corridor for illegal immigration, locked down with the Texas National Guard and the Texas State Police. Rows of razor wire line the border – and more is being added after the High Court said federal agents could continue their task of clearing it away. Border Patrol, however, still isn’t allowed in the park.

Of the 27 GOP governors in the US, only three didn’t sign on to this letter: Idaho’s Brad Little, Vermont’s Phil Scott, and Greg Abbott himself – who, of course, might have come away looking a bit silly had he signed a letter that declares he stands behind himself.

Former President – and current GOP front-runner – Donald Trump also spoke up for Governor Abbott, as did independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Senator John Kennedy (R-LA).

That Trump supports Abbott against both Joe Biden the man and illegal immigration the issue comes as no surprise. “Those Biden let in should not get comfortable because they will be going home,” he posted on Truth Social. Support from former Democrat RFK, Jr., on the other hand, may have shocked some – though perhaps it shouldn’t, given his recent campaign positions and that he’s running against Biden as well as Trump.

“Texas is right. Biden’s failure to secure the border leaves states no choice but to take matters into their own hands,” Kennedy posted on X. “As President, I will end this humanitarian crisis once and for all. I will secure the border and destroy the business model of the drug cartels. A country without borders is not a country at all.”

Sen. John Kennedy, on the other hand, approached the subject from a more economic angle. “Pres. Biden’s failed border policies have wreaked havoc in every corner of our country, including Louisiana,” he tweeted. “According to one estimate, Louisianians pay an additional $4,613 PER illegal migrant – that’s about $604 MILLION per year – in state taxes because of illegal immigration.”

The left, of course, accuses Abbott – and Republicans in general – of interfering with the federal government just for the sake of making hay over the immigration issue leading up to Election Day. Some even go so far as to advocate Biden federalize the Texas National Guard and take control by force.

The Texas Border – Who Owns It?

The final paragraph of Section 10 of the US Constitution reads:

“No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.”

Note that there are three caveats to the rule that states won’t do these various things. First, Congress could give permission. Second, the state might be invaded. And third, the state could face “imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.” That last item is vague – likely intentionally so – and allows plenty of room for interpretation (presumably the courts’ job) in case something other than an actual invasion threatened a state immediately enough as to leave no time to consult Congress before acting.

(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Since the Constitution says states can’t do these things without meeting one or more of those exceptions, a strict reading reveals that, in the presence of such a circumstance, they can.

So, if the flow of migrants illegally crossing the border can be legitimately considered an invasion, then Governor Abbott does, in fact, have the constitutional right to do any and all of the otherwise forbidden things in that paragraph, including defend his state by force of arms.

It’s clear, then, that Governor Abbott didn’t just pull this idea out of the ether; it rests upon a firm and logical constitutional foundation – assuming, of course, it’s reasonable to call what’s happening in Texas an invasion.

A Question of Supremacy

The question, then, is who has the supreme claim to the “supreme law of the land”? The Biden administration has been cutting the razor wire seemingly for no reason other than to allow illegal immigrants to cross. The president’s policy is that – despite his own claims otherwise – the border is open, and the US government won’t stop people from crossing. So, who gets to define the issue? Are hordes of immigrants coming to America in a way that’s perfectly acceptable to the Biden administration’s policies, or is a besieged Texas facing an invasion it must fight off because the federal government simply won’t?

It came to the US Supreme Court justices to decide that question. And, while they didn’t (surprise, surprise), they did issue a short-term ruling on Monday, January 22, that allows the Biden administration to cut the wire. This decision overturned the injunction put in place by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which forbade federal agents from cutting wire on state or private land, but it is not the answer to the big question. That will, presumably, come later. As Liberty Nation Legal Affairs Editor Scott D. Cosenza, Esq. explained:

“The ruling doesn’t make a final decision on the facts; it is only about what actions are allowed while the case is making its way through the courts …… Now, the case returns to a hearing on the merits in the district court, presumably an appeal before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and another go at the Supreme Court.”

“This is not over,” Governor Abbott declared after the Supreme Court, at least temporarily, took Biden’s side. In fact, with Donald Trump rallying Congress on the border and GOP governors uniting, it may be just the beginning.

 

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My Gazette: AG Ken Paxton Lawfare

By Rich Kozlovich

 

I save an inordinate number of articles dealing with every issue facing humanity.  I save them with the intention to use them in my own commentaries as source material.  But, after a while my draft files get really big and while I still want to have that materiel for reference, I have to purge those files.  So, I've decided to start a weekly series of Gazettes.  I will be publishing a "Gazette" dealing with each issue regularly, and I will insert "My Take " along the way.  Draft file purged, material saved. 

Warming: Some of these draft articles go aways back, and while that may be tiresome, it will also lay out a historical pattern.   

Lawfare, the misuse of America's judicial system and rule of law by the left has been out of control.  Expensive to defend against SLAPP suits to shut up those who disagree, another form of censorship, and this has been going on for a long time. It's now out of control.  We see the Trump situation, but there are others, including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.  They impeached him to get him out of the AG position, and that failed, so he's back, and he's not going to let all this go.  

One more thing.  

For some time I've been saying if Trump is elected he needs to hire an Attorney General with a mad dog in a meat market mentality to purge the Deep State traitors.  I think this is the guy!

Let's start here: 

Texas Attorney General Puts Critics, Biden, and Google in Crosshairs After Impeachment - by John Solomon - Two months after crushing a rushed effort to impeach him, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is plotting a dual tsunami designed to politically punish those in the Legislature who tried to remove him from office while putting Google, President Joe Biden and other liberal foes into his legal crosshairs....[he] made clear the impeachment travails he survived have only increased his resolve to reshape politics and the law in Texas. And he thinks GOP voters in the state are motivated to join the fight................

My Take - I believe the pharmaceutical companies have been behind what in my opinion has to be criminal activity trying to cover their lies and misrepresentation regarding these gene altering chemical compounds they're calling vaccines.  I also wonder if the attacks against Paxton didn't originate there. Speculation, I know, but I do wonder. RK

After Getting Hit With a 'Thermonuclear Lawsuit,' Media Matters Is Now Being Investigated by Texas Leah Barkoukis  |  November 21, 2023 10:00 AM Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened an investigation into Media Matters after the left-wing media watchdog group published a report last week alleging ads on X from top corporations were running “alongside white nationalist and pro-Nazi" content. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened an investigation into Media Matters after the left-wing media watchdog group published a report last week alleging ads on X from top corporations were running “alongside white nationalist and pro-Nazi content." .....

Attorney General Ken Paxton Files Lawsuit Against Pfizer and Tris Pharma Over Medicaid Fraud and Distribution of Adulterated Drugs to Texas Children - In a bold move to address corporate malpractice in drug manufacturing, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced the filing of a lawsuit against pharmaceutical giants ​Pfizer, Inc., ​Tris Pharma, Inc., and ​Tris Pharma CEO Ketan Mehta. The companies are accused of engaging in deceitful practices that resulted in defrauding the ​Texas Medicaid program by providing adulterated pharmaceutical drugs specifically designed for children. The lawsuit, brought forth by the Attorney General’s Civil Medicaid Fraud Division, leverages the provisions of the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act (THFPA). Paxton’s office stated that Pfizer and Tris Pharma collaborated to produce and distribute Quillivant XR, a medication developed for pediatric attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), despite recurring failure in quality control assessments..........

Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Investigation into “Radical Anti-Free Speech Organization” Media Matters Over Fraudulent Activity - On Monday, X (formerly Twitter) filed a federal lawsuit against Media Matters and Eric Hananoki in the Northern District of Texas. “Media Matters knowingly and maliciously manufactured side-by-side images depicting advertisers’ posts on X Corp.’s social media platform beside Neo-Nazi and white-nationalist fringe content and then portrayed these manufactured images as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform,” according to the lawsuit. The complaint added, “Media Matters has opted for new tactics in its campaign to drive advertisers from X. Media Matters has manipulated the algorithms governing the user experience on X to bypass safeguards and create images of X’s largest advertisers’ paid posts adjacent to racist, incendiary content, leaving the false impression that these pairings are anything but what they actually are: manufactured, inorganic, and extraordinarily rare.”...........

 

My Take - Well, it appears that didn't sit well with the left, and they're at it again. RK
 

Texas’s conservative attorney general in the left’s legal crosshairs again -  November 26, 2023  By Amil Imani - This is nothing but a witch hunt, and yet again, Ken Paxton, Texas’s attorney general, finds himself at the epicenter of a protracted legal saga.  But Paxton stands resilient.  At the heart of the controversy lies the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, a foundational principle of our justice system.  Legal challenges, rather than evidence of wrongdoing, are seen as an integral part of a fair process, underscoring the importance of due process in pursuing justice. The absurd claim is that Paxton defrauded investors by encouraging them to fund a tech startup.  The twist lies in the assertion that, unbeknownst to the investors, Paxton was receiving financial compensation for promoting the venture. Paxton pleaded not guilty.  He unequivocally asserts that the charges against him, which have lingered since 2011, are entirely fabricated.  Despite the passage of time, he contends that the statutes of limitations on certain issues have been exceeded while simultaneously arguing that the laws in question were never applicable to him in the first place.............

McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part VII

By Rich Kozlovich 

 Derek Hunter, is a writer for Townhall.com for whom I have little respect. He's a snot, and I think his analyses are at best shallow.  He wrote this piece, The Party Of Idiots, outlining just what a disaster Biden has been to the nation, then went on to criticize those who wanted to do something about it saying:

The “geniuses” behind ousting the Speaker of the House didn’t think anything beyond their personal fundraising and cable news appearances, and even that might be giving them too much credit.  

If you want something to happen, you should have a plan to make it happen.........Not Matt Gaetz, Nancy Mace, and the other morons who saw an opportunity but didn’t have the cognitive skills to decide whether they should take it.............. Does anyone believe either of those people have thought through the consequences of their actions at any point in their lives, or do they strike you as the “I don’t care, I want to do it anyway” type? If you’ve heard the stories, you know the answer.

 

"Gaetz, Mace, and the other morons who saw an opportunity but didn’t have the cognitive skills to decide whether they should take it.......... Does anyone believe either of those people have thought through the consequences of their actions at any point in their lives, or do they strike you as the “I don’t care, I want to do it anyway” type? If you’ve heard the stories, you know the answer."

 

He went on to further insult Gaetz and the Heroic Eight, and he's not the only one.  I picked Hunter because I think he ranks among the most shallow and obnoxious, and consistently so.   But I see this pattern over and over again by seemingly conservative writers on seemingly conservative news sites, including Michael Barone who in this article, The Gathering Storm, outlines what a disaster Joe Biden and his administration has been to the nation, including this Israel/Hamas War (which will be far reaching down the road) but just can't help himself and slams the Heroic Eight saying:

 

America is bitterly split on partisan lines, with a narrowly Republican House (which nonsensically ousted its speaker).....

 

It was nonsense? Really?  Well, that's part of the problem with intelligent people who made a career of being a Washington insider.  Loss of perspective, with an inability to be the rock in the current against the conventional wisdom, which unlike traditional wisdom, has yet to stand the test of time.  

 

"Now isn't the right time", is an unendingly and irritating meme I've heard forever dealing with every controversial issue that surfaces.  Well, I keep asking: If not now, when?   For those who spout that, the right time is never.  And, since I didn't see a lot of people jumping into the boat that's rowing against the tide, so, I think it wise to ask:  If not Gaetz, who?  For these detractors, just as there is no right time, there is no right person.   And finally, was it necessary?  

 

The answers are as follows: Now is the time, Gaetz was the only one with the courage and willingness to take the beating and do it, and yes, it was necessary!

 

The detractors claim the Heroic Eight didn't have a plan.  Is that true?   No!  Their plan was to force McCarthy out and force the House Republicans to do something about the Republican leadership that can only be called less than stellar in their performance in stopping this spending, borrowing, regulatory insanity Biden, the Democrats, and the CINO's (Conservative in Name Only) in the Senate and the House have permitted to go on.  All of whom were more than willing to allow all that to get worse. Chaos?  No!  National bankruptcy is chaos, not fiscal restraint and the willingness to get rid of those who fail the nation. 

 

Did they have a planned conclusion? No, but they did have a hope this would set the stage for a positive conclusion.  There are always unintended consequences in any effort no one can plan for, so a solution was going to have to be up to the Republican caucus, and attributing false motives to them is nothing more than a cheap shot.   

 

The fact is, if you can't, or won't define things properly, you can't have understanding. If you don't have understanding, you cannot have a common vision.  Without a common vision, you have chaos, and chaos wasn't created by ousting McCarthy.  Ousting McCarthy is what exposed the chaos that already exists.

 

The Heroic Eight created a crisis, and crises force evaluations.  Evaluations force conclusions, conclusions force action.   With that in mind, let's do just a little history here as to who really is responsible for all this starting with the fact McCarthy betrayed the deals he made with conservative members by wanting to pass a Continuing Resolution that would continue to fund an outrageous and massively bloated 2023 budget.  

The Freedom Caucus kept warning they were in opposition to that, and he had nine months to work at passing legislation to avoid another last minute CR to avoid shutdown.  He didn't do that because he was far more comfortable making backroom deals with the Democrats than he was with his own party.  Make no mistake about it, as we've seen by their reaction to his ouster, a large number of Republican CINO's were more than happy to go along with that.  All more than willing to carry the water for the White House, and the Democrats, and in most cases in violation of what they promised their constituents.  There outrage is contemptible. As Bob Maistros states: 

 

This is not moderation, it's venality, duplicity, and corruption......Because even the hopeless libs at Brookings admit our budgetary trajectory is “unsustainable” – a fiscal IED with mid-century interest payments projected to exceed even the unfunded megatrillions for soon-to-be-insolvent Social Security and Medicare.

But just as important, reclaiming the power of the purse at any cost is vital to confronting straight-on the radical progressive and elitist cabal and avoiding the endless series of train wrecks toward which it has set America barreling...........To advance this overthrow of democratic norms, the ruling cabal has blockaded every conceivable political, economic, social, cultural, and judicial avenue for reform. Including, yes, elections. After the certifiably unlawful tactics employed in the 2020 contest and the equally suspicious sputtering of the anticipated 2022 “Red Wave,” can anyone count on the 2024 vote to turn the tide?

Resistance must start someplace – and a good place to start is Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s maneuver to unceremoniously force McCarthy from power via a motion to vacate, rinsing and repeating if necessary until the desired effect is achieved.

I was heavily involved in my industry's trade associations, and over the years I've been a bit confrontational.  I prided myself in always being unfailingly polite, but never unwilling to be the rock in the current.  I was often told I needed to be reasonable.  And my response has always been; "When have I ever not been reasonable?"  The problem with that?  Definition!  The dictionary defines reasonable as having sound judgement based on facts, reason, and logic.  Detractors defined it as the willingness to go along to get along.  Then, if that's the accepted definition, name one time when being "reasonable" ever overcame monolithic corruption.

So again, I ask:  If not now, when?  If not Gaetz, who?  Answer?  Now was the time, and Gaetz was the man needed. Liked or disliked, he did what needed to be done, and he's paid a heavy price.  But, as in all things, there are surprises.   

It appears McCarthy blames his ousting as Speaker on Democrats and if there's chaos, it's the Democrats who caused it. Surprise!  And furthermore ...... surprise again....... McCarthy is supporting Jim Jordan and says he'll do an excellent job and is "working........to get it done, " saying he is confident the Ohio congressman will secure enough votes to win in a floor vote."

He also told reporters that a new House Speaker will be elected “shortly” and that things are “going well.”  “They tried to make a motion in there to bring me back, and I just told them, ‘No, let’s not do that. Let’s walk through this and have an election,'” McCarthy said. “And I think Jim Jordan would do an excellent job.”

Okay, now, I think I've properly defended the action to dump McCarthy, but this is Washington, and nothing is ever as it appears, and no one can be trusted.  We seem to have a fly in the butter, actually two flies.  Surprise! 

While a couple of days ago I thought it was hilarious when House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries offered to "help" the Republicans by creating a "bipartisanship" leadership, all for the good of the nation to prevent "extremists from dictating the agenda".  Remarkable!  A radical extremist calling someone extreme, and I'm not laughing now, because it seems that's actually being discussed with Republicans, and according to him, today they're going to "formalize" those discussions.  With whom?  

Well first of all, we do understand, a discussion isn't someone mumbling to themself.  There has to be more than one party to a "discussion", and political discussions follow outlines of logic, reasoning, and setting standards of one kind or another.  It's also clear there are sufficient CINO's in the Republican party, and the House of Representatives, who would be willing to entertain anything the Democrats offer in order to make that happen.  

In point of fact, there are sufficient CINO's in the House to actually elect a Democrat, which is what Jeffries really wants.  It's a mess, and make no mistake, if the Republicans agree to this the 2024 Republican primaries will be filled with people who will be joining Liz Chaney and Adam Kinzinger in retirement.  Unless they decide to run Chaney or Kinzinger for Speaker of the House, and that might not be all that far-fetched.   I think the Democrats would vote for either of them en-masse.  

To get elected the Speaker needs 218 votes, and there are 212 Democrats.  How hard would it be to get six Republican CINO's to roll over and betray their party, their constituents, and the nation?  Even changing party affiliations and becoming Democrats?  I'm betting it wouldn't be that hard at all!   

If you're wondering how that would turn out take a look at what's going on in the Texas legislature, where a Republican legislature has been totally unmanned by a corrupt Republican Speaker of the House who gave chairmanships to Democrats and undermines every conservative effort by the legislature.  It's not a pretty sight.  

As Jim Hoft states:

If this happens it will be the end of the Republican party.  The conservative base of the party have put up with neglect and abuse from lawmakers for years. If the elites nix Jim Jordan’s vote for Speaker – that will confirm the party’s disgust for its conservative voting base.  

Surprise!!!

• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part I
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part II
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part III
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part IV
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part V
• McCarthy is Done and Now, the Real Story Begins, Part VI

The Vote Fraud Monster Is Coming for Ted Cruz

May 28, 2023 By Jay Valentine

On the Memorial Day weekend, while most Americans played near water, the leftists impeached the strongest elected voice in Texas for election integrity — Ken Paxton.  Impeachments were history book items until Clinton, then two more for Trump and some predicting one for Biden.  Everyone kind of gets it.  It's a political thing, with preposterous second-raters giving speeches about honesty, integrity, rule of law as they bend the rules to get their way.

This one is a bit different.  Paxton is the stand-up guy who — but for a very sketchy Supreme Court "standing" ruling — could have seriously upended the fraudulent election in 2020.  He is ballsy, innovative, smart, and colorful.  And he is the attorney general of a very big state — or was, as he now is suspended.  It's now up to the state Senate.

He had one of those mistress events that beguiles Christian conservative types.  Then there was some kind of lawsuit followed by a $3-million settlement.  Republicans do seem to pay more for sex than the leftists who drive their victims off a bridge or bite their lip or just deny that it ever happened.

Paxton apparently did everything above board — as far as the payment goes, even getting the Legislature to fund it.  A group of RINOs and all the leftist Democrats held a secret investigation, leading to a bill sent to the Legislature, days before the holiday — leftists demanding a vote on the holiday Saturday.

It's railroading — done well! .........................To Read More....

Texas AG Ken Paxton  Bob Price 27 May 2023 The Texas House of Representatives impeached Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday by an overwhelming vote. Attorney General Paxton is immediately suspended from office as he awaits a trial in the Texas Senate. During a hearing on the floor of the Texas House, more than 81 percent of the members voted to impeach Attorney General Paxton on the 20 articles of impeachment filed by the House General Investigations Committee. The final vote was 121 ayes, 23 nays, two present not voting, and three abstentions...........

Trump, Cruz Speak Out - Jordan Dixon-Hamilton 27 May 2023 - Former President Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) on Saturday spoke out against the Texas House of Representatives’ attempt to impeach Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. On Thursday, the Texas House’s General Investigating Committee, composed of three Republicans and two Democrats, voted unanimously to refer 20 articles of impeachment for a vote on the House floor............Trump said:

The RINO Speaker of the House of Texas, Dade Phelan, who is barely a Republican at all and failed the test on voter integrity, wants to impeach one of the most hard working and effective Attorney Generals in the United States, Ken Paxton, who just won re-election with a large number of American Patriots strongly voting for him. You would think that any issue would have been fully adjudicated by the voters of Texas, especially when that vote was so conclusive….

….I love Texas, won it twice in landslides, and watched as many other friends, including Ken Paxton, came along with me. Hopefully Republicans in the Texas House will agree that this is a very unfair process that should not be allowed to happen or proceed—I will fight you if it does. It is the Radical Left Democrats, RINOS, and Criminals that never stop. ELECTION INTERFERENCE! Free Ken Paxton, let them wait for the next election!

Cruz called the attempt to impeach Paxton a “travesty.”...............

Trump and Conservatives Condemn Impeachment of Texas AG Ken Paxton -By Darlene McCormick Sanchez May 27, 2023 - Former President Donald Trump and conservative heavy-hitters took to social media to defend Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton even as the GOP-led Texas House voted to impeach him. Republican Speaker Dade Phelan and fellow Republicans joined with Democrats to temporarily remove Paxton, a staunch GOP conservative, from office on accusations of bribery, obstruction of justice, and abuse of public trust. Texas lawmakers voted 123 to 23 to adopt the 20 articles of impeachmen...................“Free Ken Paxton, let them wait for the next elections,” Trump wrote.................“No attorney general has battled the abuses of the Biden admin more ferociously—and more effectively—than has Paxton,”...............“This Texas House-led impeachment is a witch hunt”............Paxton said following the House vote that the impeachment is unfair and politically motivated, adding that he looks forward to resolving the allegations in the Senate............House Republican Brian Harrison called the impeachment a “sham” and “railroading of a political enemy.”..............Mike Schofield, complained the months-long investigation was done under the radar and House members were kept in the dark until this week.............Schofield called the proceedings “unprecedented” and said there was no reason “to sneak up on the public” by fast-tracking the removal of an elected official...............

A Modest Proposal for Transforming the Universities

The entire apparatus can be restaffed and employed to help dismantle all the bogus, intellectually vacuous programs, departments, and initiatives whose sole purpose is to foster permanent grievance. 

 By Roger Kimball

As the plague of woke totalitarianism continues to besiege American universities, I note that we are finally beginning to see a little pushback. Public universities in Texas offer typical examples of this ying-yang process. As the Daily Signal reports, 

Several Texas universities have begun the practice, in the staff hiring process, of requiring statements in favor of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, or DEI, as well as examples of ‘anti-racist’ behavior. Job applicants are required to state multiple times in which they have participated in ‘anti-racist’ behavior in an effort to ‘deconstruct white supremacy.’

Call that the strophe. 

The antistrophe was not far behind: “One bill introduced in the Texas Legislature would pull every cent from these programs.” It’s a development I like to see. .........To Read More....

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No excuse for Texas energy debacle

Joe Bastardi |July 12th, 2022 Energy | 27 Comments

This is nuts… 

How is it that the state of Texas, given its long and storied history of extreme heat, has let this happen?  Its not hard to understand when you understand this is part and parcel of what happens when you exaggerate climate claims.  FORCED RELIANCE ON SO-CALLED GREEN ENERGY SOURCES, the same thing that has sent European countries to the brink, especially Germany, is being foisted on Texas. And it is only getting worse. Given a San Francisco-based leftist green agenda consulting agency is set to make “recommendations” as to how to solve it on August 15th,  the hammer is going to come down worse.

It is hard to believe that they have put themselves into this situation.  And of course, the left will blame it getting too hot because of climate change. once again setting up the man-made problem and blaming something else.  

Since the 3 big heat years of 2010-2012.

comparable to 52-54

TEXAS HAS COOLED WITH ITS SUMMER MAXES!

This runs completely OPPOSITE to the idea that a new dust bowl was coming that was being touted at the end of 2012.  And btw some of the same people that were pushing that are now apparently trying to get rid of the idea that the 1930s were that hot, But that is how this crowd runs. If they were up at Harvard or MIT they would probably try to erase the 1938 hurricane.

If Texas is serious about supplying energy to their expanding infrastructure Solar and wind are supplemental sources that can aid in helping but until time-efficient storage is available of that form of electricity should not be the main diet. Yet that is where they are going, And they are going to pay a hard high price.  

But maybe those federal energy mandates are there to do exactly that.  If they were serious, then they would build nuclear power plants as even James Hansen,, the former NASA scientist who is likely one of the loudest alarmists there is, has been saying for 4 decades.

There is no reason for this misery except gross incompetence or purposeful direction to cause it,  Given what we are seeing today,  that is a much bigger debate as to which one of those 2 has the upper hand as to the reason,  than a heat wave that is returning after 10 years ( shock it gets hot in Texas)  being a sign of climate change and  then  prescribing more of what has gotten them into this jam in the first place.

Joe Bastardi - Joe Bastardi is a pioneer in extreme weather and long-range forecasting. He is the author of “The Climate Chronicles: Inconvenient Revelations You Won’t Hear From Al Gore — and Others” which you can purchase at the CFACT bookstore. His new book The Weaponization of Weather in the Phony Climate war can be found here. phonyclimatewar.com 

• Tucker Carlson’s latest on ‘green’ energy is mandatory viewing July 13, 2022 With the examples of Sri Lanka and Ghana already before us, Tucker spells out exactly where the Biden administration’s policies are taking us............
• Electricity Blackouts Are Here, and Regulation Wishful Thinking Won't Cut It - By Tony Clark July 11, 2022 - Hardly a week goes by without reports regarding the growing threat of electricity blackouts in the U.S.  It brings to mind Ernest Hemmingway’s line in The Sun Also Rises about bankruptcy happening “two ways…gradually, then suddenly.”  For years, electric reliability has been an increasing concern.  Nonetheless, it’s all a bit jarring to see evidence that much of the U.S. is shifting from the “gradually” phase of electric reliability decline and into the “suddenly” phase............  
• Like a third-world country, California is facing rolling power blackouts July 3, 2022 To defeat the resurgence of this pre-modern darkness, California is reluctantly turning to a hated product to keep the lights on.

State GOP officially determines Biden was 'not legitimately elected'

'We reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election'

    By Bob Unruh June 20, 2022

President Donald Trump addresses CPAC in Dallas, Texas, on Sunday, July 11, 2021. (Video screenshot)  Texas Republicans have adopted a new state party platform that openly rejects the results of the 2020 presidential election and declares that Joe Biden was "not legitimately elected."

And much more.

The Washington Examiner notes that the state party's convention was held recently, and members charged that the election through which Biden was handed the White House "violated the Constitution and resulted in substantial voter fraud. The party contended various state elections officials "illegally circumvented" state legislatures by "conducting their elections in multiple ways."...........To Read More....

My Take - I hate having to repeat this but the Constitution gives the legislature or each state the sole and singular power to write the rules regarding elections in their states. Neither the governor, judges, election officials or any elected official can make changes in those rules. If done, it's illegal, and it was done over and over again in many states including Pennsylvania by the state Supreme Court in support of officials who had no authority to make changes.

• Were the elections rigged? It might not matter. June 22, 2022 By Robert Arvay - Elections will not legitimize any government if they are rigged.  We must end the absurdity whereby a private corporation can be hired to count our votes and then refuse to prove to us exactly how it got the final numbers.  If the system is not completely transparent and auditable, you can never be confident in it.  You can be completely justified in suspecting that it is fraudulent.  When the public no longer trusts those who count the votes, then the outcome will be chaos........