The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Today endeth the 89th Texas Legislature as the 140 days have come to an end. Three big bills that were thought to be likely to pass did not. One of them puts election integrity in Texas in peril and is a handout to the “community organizers” of the Left; another is a big surprise to the public school folks as the effort to end the STAAR test failed at the last moment, and; the third is that a much needed judicial pay raise bill failed all because the old problem of legislators having linked their substantial pensions (yeah, I know you thought they didn’t really get paid) to that of the state’s judges.

But, they did manage to spend a bunch of money and provide a meaningful property tax relief package (it could have been much larger.)

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Bad news: U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear GOP activist’s lawsuit challenging Texas Ethics Commission’s lobbying fine.

Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Major Victory Against Border NGO Allegedly Harboring Illegal Aliens. The ruling from the Texas Supreme Court is very interesting, read it here.

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