Texas Progressives tackle Strangeabbott and the Lege

Texas political stupidity and red-assed-ness was even more on display than normal the last week or two. The abortion bill, of course, the biggie, paralleled by the voting restrictions bill. Meanwhile, Status Quo Joe had an up-and-down week on Texas-related issues.

With that, let's dig in to this week's roundup. There's plenty here.

Texas

Texas is already being sued over the new vote restrictions bill even as a federal judge has ruled the state owes attorney fees to plaintiffs over previous lawsuits over that old voting ID abomination bill.

Sayonara and Happy Trails to Dale Hansen.

THE University of Texas is about to get the Liberty Institute, essentially, its equivalent of Stanford's Hoover Institution on wingnut steroids. Lordy.

Off the Kuff finds a bit of early evidence that Greg Abbott may have done some damage to his general election brand. (Yours truly is tackling this on Friday.)

Other contributors to this week's Roundup were all talking about the abortion bill.

RAICES vows to disobey Texas' new Roe-violating abortion ban.

Steve Vladeck finds a flagrant example of SCOTUS not being at all hampered by procedural obstacles when they wanted to.

Finally, you can and should make a donation to a variety of funds that support abortion access in Texas here. 

National

Richard Spencer, who ran his Neo-Nazi "policy organization" out of his mother's basement summer home in Whitefish, Montana, is now getting full-on Amish-type shunning, including being denied service at many places in Whitefish, allegedly broke, and still facing both a criminal trial and civil lawsuits over Charlottesville 2017. Antisemitic pal Andrew Anglin, founder of The Daily Stormer, lost a $14 million lawsuit over his dogpiling on a Whitefish real estate agent in regards to a property owned by Spencer's mom. Oh, and his wife divorced him over all this. Mediaite has more.

Unfortunately, after first thinking about doing the right thing, Spencer's mom apparently fell under the sway of Sonny Boy.

Yes, #BlueAnon, Biden tells whoppers. The problem is, he has such a history that any new whoppers can't be used to make any mental health judgments.

Biden has ordered the FBI to do a declassification review of 9/11 materials. Whether anything new actually will be declassified is another matter.

National-Texas

Is a levee improvement in the Valley actually a wall?

Biden said he'll get Congress to fight the Texas abortion bill. The Daily Poster reports that Congress has been slothful on this issue.