Texas Just Passed One of the Country’s Most Racist Immigration Laws

Opponents both domestic and abroad have come out in full force against Texas’s latest immigration law, which gives local judges the authority to deport immigrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The law, which was signed by Governor Greg Abbott on Continue reading Texas Just Passed One of the Country’s Most Racist Immigration Laws

Biden Scraps Environmental Laws to Build Trump’s Border Wall

An estimated 95 percent of native habitat in the Rio Grande Valley has already been lost to development. Construction could threaten plans to recover populations of endangered ocelots, as well as endangered plants. In the notice, Mayorkas describes the Rio Continue reading Biden Scraps Environmental Laws to Build Trump’s Border Wall

Here’s How Much Ron DeSantis’s Stupid Culture-War Laws Cost Taxpayers

DeSantis’s administration has already allocated more than $875,000 for lawsuits this year alone. The Florida governor’s office hired the law firm Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak to defend two laws blocking access to gender-affirming care. The government signed a Continue reading Here’s How Much Ron DeSantis’s Stupid Culture-War Laws Cost Taxpayers

The GOP’s Drag Bans Aren’t Meant to Be Good Laws. They’re Meant to Cause Chaos.

Montana’s ban shares a key feature with many of the other states’ bans targeting drag: It is written in broad, vague language seemingly designed to produce a chilling effect, encouraging people to enforce the law based not on its contents Continue reading The GOP’s Drag Bans Aren’t Meant to Be Good Laws. They’re Meant to Cause Chaos.