Tex's Place

By Richard Moorhead One Texas sheriff has had enough. Sheriff Brad Coe of Kinney County took four illegal aliens to the border himself after a suspected smuggler driving the migrants crashed while evading arrest,  The Epoch Times  reported. Sheriff Coe’s deputies arrested the suspected smuggler on seven felony counts. However, it was up to the federal authorities to detain the migrants who were accompanying him. Sheriff Coe says that Border Patrol declined to arrest four migrants, claiming they could only detain them if they accepted medical assistance after the crash. As a result, Sheriff Coe loaded the four illegal migrants into his truck and drove them to the nearest  border crossing  an hour away. He dropped off the migrants at Eagle Pass, a border crossing that’s been swamped with illegal immigration during Joe Biden’s presidency. “Well, they had declined any type of medical help,” said Coe of the illegal immigrants, speaking to the Times. “But t...

By Timothy P. Carney A ccording to the media and national Democrats, the conservative majority on the  Supreme Court  is radical. Our planet is on fire, and this extremist Supreme Court has destroyed the federal government’s ability to fight back. This radical Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis, and we can't let them have the last word. — Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) June 30, 2022 Vox   explained  the majority’s ruling perfectly. “The Supreme Court on Thursday handed down a decision that says the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the power to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants without authorization from Congress.” Adopting  Vox’s  wording and combining it with the minority’s putative logic, you would conclude that  the   EPA has the power to regulate CO2 without authorization from Congress . The general principle behind such an opinion is that the executive branch can make its own laws. Yet th...

By Jack Birle Judge Cooper recently conducted a trial  challenging the governor’s executive order prohibiting school boards from requiring masks. A  circuit  judge  has blocked a  Florida  law that would have banned  abortions  after 15 weeks. Florida 2nd Circuit Court Judge John Cooper struck down the law before it could take effect, saying it violates the state's constitution. "The Florida Supreme Court has determined Florida's privacy's provision is clearly implicated in a woman's decision in whether or not to continue her pregnancy," Cooper  said . Whitney White, a staff attorney for the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, who helped the plaintiffs in challenging the law, praised the court’s ruling. “We’re glad the court recognized Florida’s abortion ban is a cruel attack on people’s health, futures, and state constitutional rights,” White  said . “This ban defies the will of the people and rights that Floridians have relied on for de...

By Cam Edwards New York City Mayor Eric Adams ran for office pledging to reduce violent crime, but since the Democrat and former NYPD officer has been in charge, major crimes have increased by a whopping  40% across the city . Now the mayor is taking action against five companies that he says violated city ordinances by shipping unfinished frames and receivers to a New York City address; one that was set up by the New York City Sheriff’s Office. In a new lawsuit filed in federal court, Adams and other city officials allege that Arm or Ally LLC, Rainier Arms LLC, 80P Builder, Rock Slide USA LLC and Indie Guns LLC have not only broken that local ordinance, but have created a “public nuisance” in doing so, which allows them to use a law approved by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year empowering public officials and the general public to sue gun makers and sellers when their products are used in a crime. While Adams and other Democrats from Joe Biden on down have sought to paint home-buil...

By Mark Alexander “About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful.” “Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.” —Thomas Jefferson (1775) As we approach the 246th anniversary of the Founding of  American Liberty , I am grateful for the  critical decisions by our Supreme Court  affirming not only the sanctity of life but also the fundamental  First Amendment  and  Second Amendment  rights of all Americans. Indeed, the first shots of the American Revolution fired at the battles of  Lexington and Concord  on April 19th, 1775, were to repulse the confiscation of militia firearms — in other words, to disarm the peopl...