Weekly Roundup - July 28, 2023

28/07/2023 1h 1min
Weekly Roundup - July 28, 2023

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Show off your Lone Star spirit with a free Texas flag hat with an annual subscription to The Texan: https://go.thetexan.news/texas-flag-hat/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=weekly_roundupThe Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast. This week on The Texan’s Weekly Roundup, the team discusses: Gov. Greg Abbott’s response to the Department of Justice demanding he remove the Rio Grande buoy barrier systemTexas book vendors suing over a state law that penalizes them for selling “explicit” books to schoolsKen Paxton’s attorneys requesting a bill of particulars for the attorney general’s impeachment chargesVA employees now able to request a religious accommodation from performing abortion proceduresTexas withdrawing from a multi-state voter data sharing organization after transparency and impartiality concernsTexts revealing Texas House members’ anger about Paxton’s $3.3 million settlement funding requestSen. John Whitmire and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee leading in the Houston mayoral raceA Texas woman’s $1 million lawsuit over botched gender modification treatments she received as a teenagerThe attorneys for a lawsuit from Uvalde victim families facing criminal contempt charges in a $6 billion lawsuitFormer Harris County employee Rick Noriega demanding $685,000 and an apology from Judge Lina HidalgoAn computer glitch causing Limestone County appraisal values and property taxes to skyrocketAldine ISD planning to use eminent domain on a home to build its new football stadium parking lot