Table Of Content
- Bills - Fourth Called Session of the 88th Legislature
- One dead in North Austin shooting, APD says
- Senators Wary of Sending National Guard to Quell Campus Protests
- At least 10 arrests at University of Texas in Austin
- David Covey forces runoff with Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, who led AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment
Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act. Joe Biden does not plan to visit Columbia University when he visits New York on Friday, White House and campaign officials told CNN. The protest was organized by several groups, including the Palestinian liberation movement and Ohio youth for climate justice, the Lantern reported.
Bills - Fourth Called Session of the 88th Legislature
Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, and John Thune, his deputy, wrote to Merrick Garland, the US attorney general, and Miguel Cardona, the education secretary, calling demonstrators “antisemitic, pro-terrorist mobs”. But as I said, when we witness calls for violence, physical intimidation, hateful, antisemitic rhetoric, those are unacceptable. The president knows that silence is complicity and that’s why he uses the platforms he has to try and ensure that our fellow Americans are safe.
One dead in North Austin shooting, APD says
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has criticized the decision by Columbia University to call the police on pro-Palestinian protesters at its New York City campus. The student newspaper said the university was restricting access to Harvard Yard to only university ID holders until Friday. Campus officials have also dismantled Palestinian solidarity encampments set up earlier today by students who are demanding for USC to divest from Israel, along with a ceasefire in Gaza where Israeli forces have killed more than 34,000 Palestinians. He said he met briefly with the president of Columbia University and encouraged her to take more action against the protesters. The House speaker, Mike Johnson, is giving a news conference surrounded by a group of House Republicans, amid boos and chants of “We can’t hear you” and “Free, free Palestine”. Most of them served in that long stretch when their party held the majority for four decades.
Senators Wary of Sending National Guard to Quell Campus Protests
Johnson is the sixth Republican elevated to the speakership since 1994, the year the party won its first House majority and elected a speaker of its own for the first time in 40 years. The hard truth is that the five who preceded Johnson (McCarthy, Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Dennis Hastert and Newt Gingrich) all saw their time in the office end in relative degrees of defeat or frustration. And to find a Republican speaker who left voluntarily in a moment of victory, moving on to another office, you have to go back to the mid-1920s. Johnson has gained stature and won bipartisan praise for letting the whole House vote on the aid package. He also got strong support in the Senate, where even an outright majority of Republicans voted for the aid on Tuesday. "Dade Phelan has dodged every debate and public forum since the beginning of this race because he cannot defend his embarrassing record on border security,” Covey said in a statement Thursday.
Campus police announced earlier that anyone who stayed in the area would be subject to criminal trespass laws. The board said it is "urgently working" with Shafik to resolve the unrest on campus and "rebuild the bonds of our community." Work and classes will remain remote, and officials are considering keeping the campus closed for longer. For months, barely concealed acrimony had been brewing among top Texas Republicans from different ideological camps, with Mr. Paxton aligned strongly with supporters of former President Donald J. Trump and Mr. Phelan seen as a more traditional Texas Republican.
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At least 10 arrests at University of Texas in Austin
Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the Republican House speaker of being intoxicated, as he suggested that lawmakers were preparing to impeach him over corruption allegations. Regardless of the outcomes in the upcoming runoff election and potential speakership battle, Phelan has already made a reluctant piece of House history in being forced into a runoff. Nick Maddux, a general consultant for Covey, in a statement Thursday reiterated the campaign's frustration with Phelan over the debate and took issue with the arrangements for the April 1 offer from the news stations and over its potential moderator.
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It remains unclear whether the two candidates will participate in a public debate ahead of the election. While Phelan has accused Covey of "ducking" the debate, Covey has returned fire in kind, saying Phelan is "dodging" an opportunity to address voters' concerns ahead of the May 28 runoff election. Paxton’s campaign to defeat rivals in his own party was a test of his own clout and that of his biggest backer, Trump. Yet his attempt to overthrow the House leadership was being widely watched as an attempt to push an already conservative chamber further to the right. Paxton was acquitted of corruption and abuse of office allegations in a historic Texas Senate trial in 2023. But he blamed Phelan for leading that effort and mounted a political revenge campaign to oust the House leader and others who supported the unsuccessful attempt to drive him from office.
A group of professors at New York University released an open letter denying that any NYU-affiliated protesters had engaged in antisemitism or intimidation of others. Police arrested dozens participating in peaceful student-led protests against the war on Gaza on Wednesday. Hundreds of faculty members then held a mass walkout to protest against the school president’s decision to have police arrest students at a pro-Palestinian encampment protest last week. Shafik has faced criticism over her handling of the protests after more than 100 people were arrested at the university last week. The Morehouse announcement has drawn some backlash among the school’s faculty and supporters who are critical of Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. That could put the White House and Biden’s reelection campaign in a difficult position as the president works to shore up the racially diverse coalition that propelled him to the Oval Office.
Neither candidate could win a majority for outright victory in Tuesday’s race that included retired hairdresser Alicia Davis. As presiding officer of the Texas House, the Speaker maintains order during floor debate, recognizing legislators who wish to speak and ruling on procedural matters. Phelan had cruised to victory in previous contests, and no incumbent House speaker has lost a primary since Rayford Price in 1972, but this was the most difficult reelection he has faced. Polling by the University of Houston showed last month that Phelan was the most unpopular Republican leader in Texas. The race had become a measure on the influence of the far-right wing of the GOP, which has cast Phelan as a traitor to the party. Paxton, seeking revenge on Phelan for supporting the House’s impeachment of him last year, campaigned for Covey in Beaumont.
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Aside from the confrontation with police, media outlets report the mood on campus has been festive. In response, the faculty members stated that on Thursday there would be “no business as usual”, suspending classes, grading and homework. Columbia University has extended a deadline for talks on dismantling pro-Palestinian protest camps on campus by 48 hours as tension over the Unites States’ handling of the Israel-Gaza war grows. The Missouri senator Josh Hawley and Arkansas senator Tom Cotton on Monday called for Joe Biden to send national guard troops on to campuses.
He touted lawmakers’ restrained spending of state dollars and business-friendly policies as reasons for the budget surplus. Importantly, the surplus also stems from an influx of federal funds given to the state to navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic and an increase in sales tax revenue that comes from Texans having to spend more because of rising inflation in the country. When members cast ballots, the only support for Tinderholt came from the two members who nominated him. All of the members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus appeared to back Phelan; the group has not yet released its roster for this session. “At some point, we need to realize we’re settling for just enough wins to get reelected,” Slaton said.
The No. 3, McCarthy, soon ran aground over remarks in a TV interview and lacked the votes to be speaker. The party settled on Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who had not sought the gavel but agreed to take it. But this time around several Democrats have indicated they would cross the aisle to support Johnson and frustrate Greene & Co. if it came to a vote. Democratic leaders have indicated they are open to this, and it essentially repeats the strategy that allowed Johnson to pass the Ukraine portion of the aid bill earlier this month. The Columbia University Board of Trustees released a statement Wednesday saying they strongly support President Minouche Shafik, who has faced calls for her resignation amid intense pressure to rein in days-long protests. In an evening update, the Texas Department of Public Safety said that 34 arrests had been made by law enforcement on the campus as of 9 p.m.
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