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Who really writes the laws?

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks before he signs Texas SB 576, an anti-smuggling bill that enhances the criminal penalty for human smuggling when a payment is involved, at McAllen City Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in McAllen, Texas. (Joel Marinez/The Monitor via AP) **FILE**

Texas takes Biden’s vaccine mandates and tells him — shove it

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks before he signs Texas SB 576, an anti-smuggling bill that enhances the criminal penalty for human smuggling when a payment is involved, at McAllen City Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in McAllen, Texas. (Joel Marinez/The Monitor via AP) **FILE**

White House slams Texas’ Abbott over ban on vaccine mandates

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Texas Gov Greg Abbott speaks before signing Senate Bill 1, also known as the election integrity bill, into law in Tyler, Texas, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/LM Otero) ** FILE **

Gov. Greg Abbott bans vaccine mandates by any ‘entity’ in Texas

By Jim Vertuno - Associated Press

Maria Peña holds a rosary and sign out outside a building housing an abortion provider in Dallas, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Texas limits distribution of abortion-inducing drugs, is appealing fetal heartbeat ruling

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks before he signs Texas SB 576, an anti-smuggling bill that enhances the criminal penalty for human smuggling when a payment is involved, at McAllen City Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in McAllen, Texas. (Joel Marinez/The Monitor via AP)

Texas Gov. Abbott vows to hire border agents if Biden fires them

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this June 16, 2021 file photo, Texas Department of Public Safety officers work with a group of migrants who crossed the border and turned themselves in Del Rio, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) **FILE**

Texas governor asks Biden to declare a state of emergency over border chaos

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Haitian migrants use a dam to cross to and from the United States from Mexico, Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. Thousands of Haitian migrants have assembled under and around a bridge in Del Rio presenting the Biden administration with a fresh and immediate challenge as it tries to manage large numbers of asylum-seekers who have been reaching U.S. soil. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

DHS shuts down border crossing to deal with growing migrant camp

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott attends a security briefing at the Weslaco Department of Public Safety DPS Headquarters on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 in Weslaco, Texas. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool) **FILE**

Texas Gov. Abbott now testing negative for COVID-19

Associated Press

A Texas flag is displayed in an elementary school music class at Tibbals Elementary School in Murphy, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Texas Gov. Greg Abbot's statewide mask order does not mandate face covering for children under the age of 10, allowing some school districts to not require masks for children leaving the choice of mask use up to the parents. (AP Photo/LM Otero) ** FILE **

Texas school district sees loophole in Gov. Abbott’s ban, adds masks to dress code

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Janet St. Paul Studio for Hair and Beauty stylist Shannon Briggs-Hack styles Anna Morris's hair in downtown Austin on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Texas is lifting a COVID-19 mask mandate that was imposed last summer but has only been lightly enforced. The new rule takes effect on March 10. (Ricardo B. Brazziell /Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks mask mandates in win for Abbott

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Ingrid Yanet Lopez Hernandez, 32, center back, her children Jazmine, 7, from left, Christian, 5, and Cristle Ordonez, 2, and pregnant mother Meregilda Mejilla, 27, and her daughter Maricelda Mejilla, 6, wait after being processed by the U.S. Border Patrol and then dropped off at the Central Station bus terminal in downtown McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 24, 2018. From there the families were gathered up by the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley and walked to their location a few blocks away. There they would get cleaned up, fed and receive help getting transportation to their future destinations. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP) **FILE**

Texas nuns win reprieve to transport undocumented migrants

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis listens during a news conference, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, near the Shark Valley Visitor Center in Miami. DeSantis is doubling down as the state again broke its record for COVID-19 hospitalizations. The Republican governor insisted Tuesday that the spike will be short-lived. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Face-off erupts over masks as virus, mandates spread

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Members of the Texas House Democratic Caucus speak to reporters about their fight against restrictive voting laws, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. The Texas Democrats left the state in protest to prevent Republicans from changing the state's elections laws. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

‘You threw us under the bus’: Texas House Democrats divided as some return to Austin

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, June 8, 2021, photo, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a news conference in Austin, Texas. Abbott, who faces a contested reelection primary next year, is pushing looser gun laws than he ever previously embraced and proposing unprecedented state actions, including promises to build more walls on the Mexican border. Similar scenes are playing out in campaigns in other red states including Arkansas and Idaho, where ultra-right-wing challengers are tapping into anger among Republicans over Trump’s election loss and coronavirus-related lockdowns. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Biden DOJ sues to stop Texas border crackdown

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a press conference on details of his plan for Texas to build a border wall and provide $250 million in state funds as a &quot;down payment.&quot;, Wednesday, June 16, 2021, in Austin, Texas. (Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman via AP) ** FILE **

Texas governor issues order to block COVID-19 positive migrants from leaving the border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 8, 2021, file photo, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a news conference in Austin, Texas. Abbott, who faces a contested reelection primary next year, is pushing looser gun laws than he ever previously embraced and proposing unprecedented state actions, including promises to build more walls on the Mexican border. Similar scenes are playing out in campaigns in other red states including Arkansas and Idaho, where ultra right-wing challengers are tapping into anger among Republicans over Trump’s election loss and coronavirus-related lockdowns. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas voting standoff jeopardizes pay for up to 2K workers

By Acacia Coronado - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump, left, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, right, speak during a stop at an unfinished section of border wall, in Pharr, Texas, Wednesday, June 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Texas authorizes National Guard to help make arrests at border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, June 10, 2021, photo, a pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia) **FILE**

Trump’s new anthem: ‘Paint the wall!’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Empty seats are seen in the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol, Tuesday, July 13, 2021, in Austin, Texas. Texas Democrats left the state to block sweeping new election laws, while Republican Gov. Greg Abbott threatened them with arrest the moment they return. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas Senate approves elections bill as House Democrats decamp in D.C.

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times