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But it will be on TV
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/gove...-state-address
Abbott's State of the State address is a private event this year. Heretofore it has been delivered during a joint session of the legislature.
But it will be on TV
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/gove...-state-address
It'll be on TV but no press allowed?
He scared
TX GOP is screwing itself in the long run with this approach.
wE gOttA keeP vOteS AwaY frOm hipPiE cOLLegE liBerAls
Driving around Texas rural town centers and seeing a Dollar General and a bunch of empty brick shopping centers is depressing. That is the legacy of Abbot's tenure.
Abbutt says he is happy to snub Biden's invitation to Governors to visit the White House
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I'll remember him more for the power up of 2021
https://www.texasobserver.org/greg-a...g-infomercial/“I’m speaking to you from the manufacturing floor of Noveon,” Abbott pointed out near the top of his remarks, as the televised broadcast cut to b-roll of Abbott getting a tour of the company’s quite unremarkable-looking facility. The governor continued to wax rhapsodic about the specific company: “With the help of businesses like Noveon, Texas is number one in the United States for the most new jobs.”
Easy question, Christian nationalism motivates the GOP's shrinking base.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-po...vouchers-tour/Who would school vouchers really benefit?
Governor Greg Abbott is helping to answer that question, not so much through his rhetoric, which is relentlessly on-message (“educational freedom,” “parental rights,” “school choice”) as through his actions. Over the last few months, the governor has been taking his case for school vouchers on the road, traveling around the state to talk up the benefits of education savings accounts, the wonky name for a program that would offer taxpayer dollars to parents who enroll their kids in private schools.
But it’s impossible not to notice that Abbott has only visited expensive private Christian ins utions—all Protestant—in front of friendly audiences of parents who have opted out of public education. Of the seven schools the governor has visited on his “Parent Empowerment Tour,” not a single one has been a public school or a secular private school or a religious school affiliated with Catholicism, Islam, or Judaism. Not even a Montessori. If the goal was to reassure critics that Abbott’s embrace of vouchers wasn’t a recipe for draining the public school system while subsidizing the children of wealthy Christian conservatives in private schools of their choice, well, none of those critics were around to hear it. The governor was quite literally preaching to the choir.
But the Senate proposal faces another obstacle: the matter of using taxpayer dollars to fund religious education. Abbott has fumed about “indoctrination” in public schools, reflecting relatively widespread unease among many Republicans about books and curriculum that attempt to reflect a pluralistic society that has evolved rapidly on issues of race, sexual orientation, and gender. Indoctrination is precisely what many parochial schools do, as a central part of their mission. If you want your child to be taught that the Bible is the “infallible, inerrant, and inspired Word of God”—a Brazos Christian doctrine—then a Christian school is a great fit.
Vouchers would erode, if not obliterate, a cornerstone of Texas’s cons utionally mandated system of public education. The Texas Cons ution prohibits public funds from being spent “for the benefit of any sect, or religious society, theological or religious seminary.” GOP lawmakers have filed bills in both the Texas House and the Senate to simply repeal this part of the 1876 Cons ution, a tacit acknowledgement that vouchers would mingle church with state in an unprecedented way.
There’s one other reason Abbott is going from Christian school to Christian school, like a popular praise band on a regional tour: he needs their help. Vouchers remain a hard sell in the Legislature. Proponents need a good chunk of Republicans representing rural districts, where public schools are often the bedrock of communities, and private schools are scarce, to back off their historic opposition.
If this ChristoFascist gets passed, TX Repugs will starve public schools, but hosing every Christian indoctrination madrasa with $8000/student
Art 1 - Sec 7
Article 1 - BILL OF RIGHTSSection 7 - APPROPRIATIONS FOR SECTARIAN PURPOSES
No money shall be appropriated, or drawn from the Treasury for the benefit of any sect, or religious society, theological or religious seminary; nor shall property belonging to the State be appropriated for any such purposes.
Abbott has hinted that he prefers a so-called “universal” program, which would offer ESAs to all parents, regardless of whether their children are already enrolled in private school. Last year, Arizona rolled out a first-in-the-nation universal voucher program; early results predictably showed that the vast majority of benefits were set to flow to wealthy private-school kids. Of the nearly 6,500 children who applied for vouchers—typically about $7,000 per student—75 percent were already enrolled in private ins utions.
Quris gladhanded yet again
He ain't doing about the border either
He plans to, though.
https://www.texasobserver.org/border...cement-powers/House Speaker Dade Phelan announced his final package of priority legislation centered on border security late Friday, headlined by House Bill 20, a measure by state Representative Matt Schaefer, a right-wing Republican from Tyler, that would create a state “Border Protection Unit” with officers who are empowered to “arrest, detain, and deter individuals crossing the border illegally including with the use of non-deadly force.”
Under this bill, officers would be allowed to repel and return migrants back to Mexico or arrest individuals seen crossing the border between ports of entry, which would become a state felony that could carry harsh prison sentences under the bill. Schaefer’s legislation would codify and expand prior orders by Governor Greg Abbott—like granting National Guard soldiers the power to detain migrants—that have blatantly tested the limits of state authority.
The special unit, to be housed within the Texas Department of Public Safety and run by a gubernatorial appointee, could hire a militia-style cadre of officers empowered to enforce these laws—with immunity from any civil or criminal liability. The bill also states that the unit could employ private citizens “to participate in unit operations and functions” who could be deputized with arresting authority if “trained and specifically authorized by the governor.”
I don't see how that's remotely legal and they know it. Right now they have to pretend people usurped somebody's property to arrest.
there are a lot of laws being passed right now that aren't remotely legal, but the people who get to say what the law is might still uphold them, and already have. they just make up for political expedience.
For example, the fake historicism behind Dobbs basically holds that people who haven't had rights all along don't deserve them, or at least, that no good legal basis exists for them having rights.
Another example, the "major questions" doctrine SCOTUS is using to dismantle the administrative state.
It's all fun and games until they get sued their asses off. Then the settlement ends up getting paid by the State...
But when it comes to immigration enforcement, Congress specifically granted that power to the federal government, and it will take Congress to roll that back.
The SCOTUS knows which fights it can pick, and they're certainly not in the business to overrule Congress.
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